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Historical Artist - George Bellows (1882 - 1925)
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. As Bellows' later oils focused more on
domestic life, with his wife and daughters as beloved subjects, the paintings also displayed an
increasingly programmatic and theoretical approach to color and design, a marked departure from
the fluid muscularity of the early work.
Contemporary American Artists
Art Galleries in United States of America
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