George Bellows (1882-1925)
Breakfast is Served
signed 'Geo Bellows' (lower left) and inscribed with title (lower center)
conté crayon on paper
26 3/8 x 20 5/8 in. (67 x 52.4 cm.)
Executed in 1922.
Footnotes:
Provenance
H.V. Allison & Co., Inc., New York.
Charles Shipman Payson (1898-1985), Lexington, Kentucky, acquired from the above by 1985.
By descent to the late owner from the above, wife of the above, 1985.

Literature
Artist's Record Book B, p. 292, no. 9.
'Men Like Gods,' Hearst International, January 1923, vol. XLIII, no.1, p. 36, illustrated.

The present work was used in the Men Like Gods series by H.G. Wells (1866-1946) published in Hearst International, based on his 1923 novel of the same title.