Kill the umpire
1906
George Bellows captures the raw, sweaty chaos of early 20th-century baseball in this frenetic sketch. It looks like a riot broke out in the bleachers! Two burly men are grappling in the foreground while the rest of the crowd screams, points, and generally loses their minds over a bad call. Bellows was a key figure in the Ashcan School, a group of artists who loved depicting the gritty, unglamorous side of New York City life. He uses scratchy, urgent lines to make you feel the noise and anger of the moment, turning a simple sports dispute into a scene of pure, unadulterated rage.
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