Both Members of This Club by George Bellows https://www.nga.gov/artworks/30667-both-members-club
Painted in October 1909, the remarkably expressive and dynamic Both Members of This Club is the third and largest of George Bellows’s early prizefighting subjects. The painting’s title is a reference to the practice in private athletic clubs of introducing the contestants to the audience as “both members� to circumvent the Lewis Law of 1900 that had banned public boxing matches in New York State.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Columbus
