Cliff Dwellers
1913 · Oil on canvas · Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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About this work
- Artist
- George Bellows (1882–1925)
- Year
- 1913
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Original size
- 102.1 × 106.83 cm
- Collection
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Movement
- Ashcan School
Tenement dwellers on the Lower East Side of New York pour out onto the street and fire escapes on a hot summer day, with washing hung between the buildings, children playing and a streetcar pushing through the crowd. Bellows painted it in 1913, the year he showed at the Armory Show; the title compares the tenements to the cliff dwellings of the American Southwest. It is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A crowded, warm-toned city street for a hallway, study or office in a black frame. It suits white, brick or deep green walls and pairs with Bellows's New York.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Ashcan School painting
- Era
- 20th century (1913)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- classic
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, study or library, home office, living room, dining room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
The Madten promise
A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.



































