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Date: Painted in September 1922 in Woodstock, New York.

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Medium: oil on canvas

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Dimensions: 44 by 34 1/4 in. (111.8 by 87 cm)

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Provenance: Estate of the artist, 1925
Emma S. Bellows (his wife)
Estate of Emma S. Bellows, 1959
H.V. Allison & Co., New York
John J. McDonough, Youngstown, Ohio, 1971 (sold: Sotheby's, New York, March 22, 1978, lot 51, illustrated)
Kennedy Galleries, New York (acquired from the above sale)

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Exhibited: Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago, Thirty-sixth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings and Sculpture, November-December 1923, no. 16 (as Portrait of Mary)
Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Museum, The Thirty-first Annual Exhibition of American Art, May-July 1924, no. 10 (as Portrait of Mary)
Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago, Special Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, Leon Kroll, Eugene F. Savage, Walter Ufer, Paul Bartlett, Edgar S. Cameron, H. Amiard Oberteuffer and George Oberteuffer, December 1924-January 1925, no. 3 (as Portrait of Mary)
Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum, Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, February-March 1925, no. 10 (as Mary)
Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Art Club, Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, Charles Hopkinson, Eugene Speicher, March 1925, no. 13 (as Portrait of Mary)
New York, H.V. Allison & Co., George Bellows, May 1970, no. 9
New Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans Museum of Art; San Diego, California, Fine Art Gallery of San Diego; San Antonio, Texas, McNay Art Institute; Raleigh, North Carolina, The North Carolina Museum of Art; A Panorama of American Painting: The John J. McDonough Collection, April 1975-June 1976, no. 2

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Literature: The artist's record book B, p. 272
Emma S. Bellows, The Paintings of George Bellows, New York, 1929, illustrated pl. 117

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Notes:

Mary McKinnon (Mrs. John De Vries) was a fashion illustrator and a neighbor of the artist in Woodstock. In 1923, Bellows created a lithograph of this sitter in a similar pose and setting, but in a different set of clothes.