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George Wesley Bellows (1882-1925) painted American life in action. From prizefights and polo matches to children playing on the banks of a river, his subjects reflect his vivacious approach to the world around him. A major realist painter, his vigorous brushstrokes also compose landscapes of remote areas of natural beauty, scenes of bustling city streets, and intimate portraits of society figures, friends, and family. All dynamics of early twentieth-century America fill Bellows's canvases and prints.
Bellows studied at the New York School of Art under Robert Henri and became one of the leading artists of the Ashcan school. His technical brilliance and vibrant realism were celebrated from early in his career, and at the age of twenty-six he became one of the youngest artists ever to be elected to the National Academy of Design in New York. Bellows exhibited often, to great acclaim, and completed many significant commissions, achieving a powerfully impressive body of work before his sudden death in his early forties.
This book brings together the most important works of Bellows's short but prolific career, combining them with an in-depth biography of the artist. Photographs of family and friends, as well as of Bellows himself throughout his life, illuminate the text and complete this portrait of George Bellows, the artist and the man.

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Mary Sayre Haverstock, former Director of the Ohio Artists Project, is an affiliate scholar at Oberlin College, Ohio. She has been an art critic for the Washington Post and contributing editor of Art in America.
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Action is the key to George Bellows and his vital paintings. Known best for his extraordinarily dynamic and dramatic paintings of boxers in the ring, Bellows himself was athletic, leading art critic Haverstock to wonder if he possessed "an innate kinetic sensibility" that somehow enabled him to capture motion with such thrilling specificity. Haverstock herself adeptly conveys the high energy and bright spirit of her subject, from his questing boyhood in Columbus, Ohio, where his natural-born gift for art was matched by prowess on the baseball field, to his rapid success in New York, beginning in 1905, when he found an ideal mentor in renowned artist and teacher Robert Henri and a treasury of subjects in a city undergoing a dazzling metamorphosis. An unusually upbeat, family-loving artist whose humanitarian values inspired both his candid depictions of the grittier side of life and his landscapes and portraits of brilliant expression, Bellows died too soon in 1925 at age 42. In a handsome volume brimming with rarely reproduced work, Haverstock renews appreciation for this quintessential American painter. Seaman, Donna
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  • PublisherMerrell Publishers
  • Publication date2007
  • ISBN 10 1858943930
  • ISBN 13 9781858943930
  • BindingHardcover
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