Artist: George Wesley Bellows (1882 - 1925)
Nationality: American
Movement: Ashcan School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
American artist, George Wesley Bellows is mainly remembered for his boxing scenes. These energetic paintings earned him a reputation in 1909, the same year he was elected an associate member of the National Academy of Design. After 1913, Bellows’s work took on social messages and he often depicted urban poverty in his work. In 1916, he took up lithography and spent the remainder of his life as a prolific printmaker. He also began producing portraits and landscapes in the last five years before his death.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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George Wesley Bellows Between Rounds Lithograph 1923
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George Wesley Bellows Romance of Criehaven oil on panel 1916
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George Wesley Bellows Keen, The Trapezist (Seated Nude) oil on canvas 1910
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George Wesley Bellows Artist's Evening Lithograph 1916
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George Wesley Bellows Love Of Winter Lithograph 1917
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George Wesley Bellows The Plaid Shawl Lithograph 1923
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George Wesley Bellows A Stag at Sharkey*s Lithograph 1917
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George Wesley Bellows Life Class Lithograph 1917
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George Wesley Bellows Jean In A Black Hat Lithograph 1924
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George Wesley Bellows Splinter Beach Lithograph 1916
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George Wesley Bellows Girl Sewing Lithograph 1923
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George Wesley Bellows Waldo Peirce oil on canvas 1920
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George Wesley Bellows Riverfront lithograph 1923 - 1924
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George Wesley Bellows Potrait Of Louis Bouche Lithograph 1921
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George Wesley Bellows The Irish Fair Lithograph 1923
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George Wesley Bellows The Garden of Growth Lithograph 1923
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George Wesley Bellows Lady of 1860 black crayon & ink wash 1922
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George Wesley Bellows - The Sea 1911 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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George Wesley Bellows, American, 1882-1925 Emma and Her Children 1923 Oil on canvas 150.49 x
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George Wesley Bellows - A Day in June 1913 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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George Wesley Bellows - Men of the Docks 1912 oil on canvas The Maier Museum of Art American
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George Wesley Bellows - In The Park 1916 lithograph on paper Hirshhorn Museum American
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George Wesley Bellows - Counted Out 1916-1917 lithograph on paper The Maier Museum of Art American
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George Wesley Bellows - Mrs. T. in Cream Silk, No.2 1920 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
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George Wesley Bellows - Mrs. T In Cream Silk, No. 1 1919-1923 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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George Wesley Bellows - Portrait of a Young Man c. 1906-09 oil on canvas Williams College Museum of Art American
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George Wesley Bellows - The Sawdust Trail 1917 lithograph on paper The Maier Museum of Art American
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George Wesley Bellows - The Football Game 1912 charcoal and wash on Hirshhorn Museum American
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George Wesley Bellows - Forty-Two Kids 1907 oil on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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George Wesley Bellows - Ringside Seats 1924 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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George Wesley Bellows, American, 1882-1925 Study of Emma and the Children 1917 Oil on canvas
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George Wesley Bellows, American, 1882-1925 Emma in the Black Print 1919 Oil on canvas 101.92
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George Wesley Bellows, American, 1882-1925 Wet Night 1916 Oil on canvas 56.2 x 71.44 cm
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George Wesley Bellows - Election Night Times Square c. 1906 charcoal, lithograph Hirshhorn Museum American
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George Wesley Bellows - The Harbor, Monhegan Coast, Maine 1913 oil on panel Minneapolis Institute of Arts American
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George Wesley Bellows - Bethesda Fountain (Fountain in Central Park) 1905 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Artist: George Bellows Title: Mrs. T in Cream Silk, No.2 Date: 1920 Medium: oil on
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A Stag at Sharkey’s, George Bellows (United States, Ohio, Columbus, 1882 - 1925) , 1917, Lithograph
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Jean 1923, George Bellows (United States, Ohio, Columbus, 1882 - 1925) , 1923, Lithograph
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Splinter Beach, George Bellows (United States, Ohio, Columbus, 1882 - 1925) , 1916, Lithograph
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The Coming Storm, George Bellows (United States, Ohio, Columbus, 1882 - 1925) , 1916, Oil on canvas
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The Sawdust Trail, George Bellows (United States, Ohio, Columbus, 1882 - 1925) , 1917, Lithograph
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Crucifixion of Christ, George Bellows (United States, Ohio, Columbus, 1882 - 1925) , 1923, Lithograph
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The Tournament, George Bellows (United States, Ohio, Columbus, 1882 - 1925) , circa 1921, Lithograph
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Dance in a Madhouse, George Bellows (United States, Ohio, Columbus, 1882 - 1925) , 1917, Lithograph
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Artist: George Bellows Title: The Harbor, Monhegan Coast, Maine Date: 1913 Medium: oil on panel
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Artist: George Bellows Title: Introducing John L. Sullivan Date: 1916 Medium: lithograph Dimensions: H.20-5/8 x
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Emma in the Purple Dress, George Bellows (United States, Ohio, Columbus, 1882 - 1925) , 1919, Oil on panel
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Murder of Edith Cavell, George Bellows (United States, Ohio, Columbus, 1882 - 1925) , 1918, Lithograph
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Portrait of John Carroll, George Bellows (United States, Ohio, Columbus, 1882 - 1925) , 1923, Lithograph
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Sixteen East Gay Street, George Bellows (United States, Ohio, Columbus, 1882 - 1925) , 1923-24, Lithograph
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Preliminaries, George Bellows (United States, Ohio, Columbus, 1882 - 1925) , 1916, Lithograph
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The Actress (Rachel, Lady of 1860), George Bellows (United States, Ohio, Columbus, 1882 - 1925) , 1923-24, Lithograph
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Amour, George Bellows (United States, Ohio, Columbus, 1882 - 1925) , 1923, Lithograph on paper
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Cliff Dwellers, George Bellows (United States, Ohio, Columbus, 1882 - 1925) , 1913, Oil on canvas
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Prayer Meeting No. 2, George Bellows (United States, Ohio, Columbus, 1882 - 1925) , 1916, Lithograph on Chine applique paper
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Nude Study, Woman Lying Prone, George Bellows (United States, Ohio, Columbus, 1882 - 1925) , 1923-24, Lithograph
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The Journey of Youth (from ’The Wind Bloweth’ series), George Bellows (United States, Ohio, Columbus, 1882 - 1925) , 1923-24, Lithograph
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Why Don’t They Go to the Country for Vacation?, George Bellows (United States, Ohio, Columbus, 1882 - 1925) , 1913, Transfer lithograph, reworked with pen
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George Bellows - New York 1911 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (13)
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Addison Gallery of American Art: Parallel Perspectives: Early Twentieth Century American Art
Painting, sculpture, and works on paper by artists such as George Inness, Ralph Blakekock, George Bellows, Patrick Henry Bruce, Arthur B. Davies, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O’Keeffe present the multiple voices of Am...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: City Life: Around the Eight
This installation features a selection of about 25 drawings and small paintings from the Museum's collection by William Glackens, Ernest Lawson, George Luks, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan (all members of the Eight) and their contemporary Geo...
Peabody Essex Museum: The Endurance: Art at latitude 74 degrees south
His fingers cracked and bled in a freezing darkroom. He scaled icy peaks and towering masts in search of a unique perspective. He stripped off the insulating warmth of gloves and hat to operate more efficiently. He nearly blinded himself...
Kibbee Gallery: Preston Snyder : Pugilism
Snyder has had a lifelong interest, involvement in and appreciation for historic architecture and has been practicing martial arts for over 30 years, which informs his figurative work. Snyder commented, "the image on the wall is a...
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University: The Changing Garden: Four Centuries of European and American Art
The Changing Garden presents nearly 200 works—prints, drawings, paintings, and photographs—by more than 100 artists. The exhibition includes great names from art history, such as Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Jean-Honoré Fr...
Columbia Museum of Art: Edward Hopper and Urban Realism
Drawn entirely from the Whitney Museum of American Art’s preeminent collection, this exhibition presents the work of Hopper alongside paintings by his peers – those artists who documented and explored the many faces of life in the changing urban e...
Frye Art Museum: The Perception of Appearance: A Decade of Contemporary American Figure Drawing
The scope of subject matter extends from nudes to narrative, while styles range from spontaneous to painstaking renderings. The wide range of movements, linear rhythms, and points of view depicted with technical virtuosity and extraordinary draugh...
Columbia Museum of Art: Intimate Expressions: Two Centuries of American Drawings
Among the many artists represented in the exhibition are Milton Avery, George Bellows, Charles Burchfield, Paul Cadmus, William Merritt Chase, Thomas Cole, John Singleton Copley, Philip Pearlstein and Benjamin West. Through drawings, the viewer ca...
National Museum of American Art: Edward Hopper: The Watercolors
The product of several years' research by Virginia M. Mecklenburg (senior curator at the Museum of American Art) and Margaret Lynne Ausfeld (curator at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
Portland Museum of Art: Rockwell Kent: The Mythic and the Modern
One of the great painters of his day, Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) made innovations that reverberated through American culture in the first half of the 20th century. He rose to prominence between the world wars as a painter of extraordinary power who...
National Gallery of Art: MASTERWORKS HONORS PAUL MELLON'S LEGACY OF GIFTS TO THE NATION; INCLUDES 14 RARE DEGAS WAXES
This exhibition honors Paul Mellon, whose generosity and service to the nation are unsurpassed, said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. The full breadth of Mr. Mellons gifts ...
Haus der Kunst: Tune the World: Sound sculptures - Pictures - Drawings

Stephan von Huene was born in Los Angeles in 1932 as the son of Baltic-German emigrants. He studied free art and art history at the University of California Los Angeles and the Chouinard Art Institute, among other places. In 1971 began his long te...
Museum of Modern Art: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and Print Collecting: An Early Mission for MoMA
Beginning June 24, 1999, MoMA will present Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and Print Collecting: An Early Mission for MoMA, a display of approximately 100 prints that Mrs. Rockefeller enjoyed in her private collection, before donating them to th...

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