George Bellows: An Artist in Action
by Mary Sayre Haverstock
from Merrell
A prolific and progressive painter known for his dynamic representations of American life, George Wesley Bellows (1882- 1925) worked for a time as a semi-professional baseball player after leaving his native Columbus, Ohio, to study at the New York School of Art under Robert Henri. A leading member of the Ashcan school of artists (see opposite), Bellows was a master of realism, noted for his vivid brush strokes and his canvases full of motion. Widely celebrated for his technical brilliance, at the age of twenty-seven he became one of the youngest artists ever to be elected to the National Academy of Design. This beautifully produced book includes Bellows's signature paintings of urban life, a selection of portraits, his lesser-known landscapes and his brilliant portrayals of prizefighters and other athletes in action. The images are accompanied by a lively text that offers new insights into the life and times of this important artist.
A major new book on one of the most noted American realists
Features stunning reproductions of over seventy key paintings and more than twenty lithographs
Accessibly written, incorporating an in-depth biography
The Powerful Hand of George Bellows: Drawings from the Boston Public Library
from Trust for Museum Exhibitions
Since his death in 1925, the country's most significant collections of American painting have granted George Bellows a place among their most important artists. Best known for a relatively small number of controversial boxing images, he is equally notable for his contributions to American landscape painting, portraiture, and especially scenes of modern American life. Although his talent is most directly evident in his drawings, until now they have been paid only cursory attention.
The Powerful Hand of George Bellows features drawings and related lithographs by the great American realist George Bellows. It describes for the first time the ingenious combinations of graphic media Bellows used to create them. It also details the circumstances under which he made them and the specifics of his active career as a commercial artist and cartoonist underlying his more celebrated role as a painter. Recorded in these drawings is a new understanding of the meteoric course along which his talents carried him.
George Bellows: American Artist (Writer's on Art)
Though he was the most famous & most highly regarded American artist of the early 20th century, the intense, prolific painter George Bellows has remained as much of an enigma to his successors as to his contemporaries. Best known for his gritty, impressionistic depictions of underground boxing & the lower east side of New York, Bellows was also influenced by cultural movements & theories of art as diverse as transcendentalism & surrealism. This book explores his life & work from the perspective of a writer & admirer. Examining Bellows' art within his historical & cultural contexts, Oates sheds new light on his technical versatility & voracious imagination. Illus.
George Bellows and the ashcan school of painting
The Lithographs of George Bellows: A Catalogue Raisonne
by Lauris Mason
from Alan Wofsy Fine Arts
Drawings of George Bellows
by George Bellow
from Borden Pub Co
George Bellows : American Painter
The Paintings of George Bellows
by Glenn Peck
from The Mennello Museum of American Art
George W. Bellows (1881-1925) was one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Known for his dynamic and self-confident approach to art, his art represents the mood being experienced in America during roughly the first quarter of the century
The Vibrant Metropolis: 88 Lithographs
by George W. Bellows
from Dover Publications
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