Stag at Sharkey’s

… vividly portrayed boxing matches in Stag at Sharkey’s (1909) and Both Members of This Club (1909). Bellows’s 1924 lithograph of Luis Firpo knocking Jack Dempsey out of the ring is perhaps the most famous of all boxing scenes. Other American painters of boxing include Thomas Eakins and James Chapin, both…

…paintings of prizefights, such as Stag at Sharkey’s and Both Members of This Club (both 1909), date from this period as well; they remain among his most famous works.