{"title":"George Wesley Bellows","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eArt strives for form, and hopes for beauty\u003c\/em\u003e - George Bellows\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGeorge Wesley Bellows\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e (August 12\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e or August 19,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e 1882 – January 8, 1925) was an \u003c\/span\u003eAmerican realist\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003epainter\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, known for his bold depictions of urban life in \u003c\/span\u003eNew York City\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, becoming, according to the \u003c\/span\u003eColumbus Museum of Art\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, \"the most acclaimed American artist of his generation\".\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBellows was a student of Robert Henri, before the later-famous artist had set up his own famous school and who at the time was teaching at the New York School of Art. While studying there, Bellows became associated with Henri's \"The Eight\" and the Ashcan School, a group of artists who advocated painting contemporary American society in all its forms. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBellows' urban New York scenes depicted the crudity and chaos of working-class people and neighborhoods, and satirized the upper classes. From 1907 through 1915, he executed a series of paintings depicting New York City under snowfall. In these paintings Bellows developed his strong sense of light and visual texture,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexhibiting a stark contrast between the blue and white expanses of snow and the rough and grimy surfaces of city structures, and creating an aesthetically ironic image of the equally rough and grimy men struggling to clear away the nuisance of the pure snow. However, Bellows' series of paintings portraying amateur boxing matches were arguably his signature contribution to art history. They are characterized by dark atmospheres, through which the bright, roughly lain brushstrokes of the human figures vividly strike with a strong sense of motion and direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaintings and prints by George Bellows are in the collections of many major American art museums, including the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, and the Whitney and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and The Hyde Collection, in Glens Falls, New York. The Columbus Museum of Art in Bellows' hometown also has a sizable collection of both his portraits and New York street scenes. The White House acquired his 1919 painting \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThree Children\u003c\/i\u003e in 2007, and it is now displayed in the Green Room.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e{https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Bellows}\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-day-in-june-by-george-wesley-bellows","title":"A Day in June by George Wesley Bellows","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eOriginal Artwork Details\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1913 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOil on canvas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 36 1\/2 x 48 in. 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