George Wesley Bellows Figurative Prints
American, 1882-1925
George Bellows, an American artist, was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1882, the only child of a successful building contractor from Sag Harbor, New York. He entered Ohio State University in 1901, where he played baseball and basketball and made drawings for college publications. He dropped out of college in 1904, went to New York, and studied under Robert Henri (American, 1865 – 1929) at the New York School of Art, where Edward Hopper (American, 1882 – 1967), Rockwell Kent (American, 1882 – 1971), and Guy Pène du Bois (American, 1884 – 1958) were his classmates. A superb technician who worked in a confident, painterly style, Bellows soon established himself as the most important realist of his generation. He created memorable images of club fights, street urchins swimming in the East River, and the Pennsylvania Station excavation site and garnered praise from both progressive and conservative critics.
In 1910 Bellows began teaching at the Art Students League and married Emma Story, by whom he had two daughters. After 1910 Bellows gradually abandoned the stark urban realism and dark palette characteristic of his early work and gravitated toward painting landscapes, seascapes, and portraits.
Bellows helped organize the Armory Show in 1913, in which five of his paintings and a number of drawings were included. That year he was elected a full member of the National Academy of Design. He had leftist political views and contributed illustrations to the Socialist publication The Masses from 1912 to 1917. Bellows began to make lithographs in 1916 and his exceptional talent engendered a revival of interest in the medium. He worked in Maine, in Carmel, California, and in Middletown, Rhode Island, and was a founding member of the Society of Independent Artists and a charter member of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors. In 1919 he taught at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Bellows, who never went to Europe, is regarded as a quintessential American artist whose vigorous style enabled him to explore a wide range of subjects from scenes of modern urban life to portraits of his daughters, to turbulent Maine seascapes. As an early biographer noted, Bellows “caught the brute force of the prizefighter, the ruggedness of the country pasture, the essence of childhood and recorded them appropriately not only for his own generation but for all time.”[1]
[1] [Frederick A. Sweet], George Bellows: Paintings, Drawings and Prints (Art Institute of Chicago, IL, 1946).
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Artist: George Wesley Bellows
The Irish Fair
By George Wesley Bellows
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Irish Fair
Lithograph, 1923
Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist (see photo)
Titled "Irish Fair" by the artist in pencil
Edition: 84
Housed in an archival frame with acid free matting (see photo)
Provenance:
Estate of the artist, Bellows Family Trust
H.V. Allison & Company (label)
Private Collection, Columbus
References And Exhibitions:
Reference: Mason 153
Note: An illustration commissioned by The Century Company for Don Byrne's novel The Wind Bloweth
Image: 18 7/8 x 21 3/8"
Frame: 29 1/2 x 30 1/2"
“Eleven on a hot July morning, and the little town...
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1920s Ashcan School George Wesley Bellows Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
"Business-Men
s Class, Y.M.C.A." George Bellows, Ashcan School Print
By George Wesley Bellows
Located in New York, NY
George Bellows
Business-Men's Class, Y.M.C.A, 1916
Signed, numbered "No. 41" and titled lower margin
Lithograph on wove paper
11 1/2 x 17 1/8 inches
Edition of 64
Provenance:
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
Private Collection, Ohio
Literature:
Mason, 20.
After his arrival from Columbus, Ohio in 1904, Bellows lived at the West Side YMCA. It was there that he met Eugene Speicher, another aspiring young artist who was to become his lifelong friend. Always interested in the anatomy of the human body, Bellows often satirized the various types who, while leading a sedentary life, feel compelled to devote a portion of their daily routine to physical self-improvement.
Throughout his brief but illustrious career, George Wesley Bellows created striking scenes that documented ordinary American life in all its beauty and banality. Considered an American Realist, the artist eschewed embellishment, finding inspiration in the gritty boroughs of New York City, the rocky coastline of Maine, and, later, in his friends and family. Bellows garnered early recognition for his arresting portrayals of illegal prizefighting, dramatic works executed in dark tonal palettes that underscore the brutality of the violent sport.
Bellows’ elderly Methodist parents hoped their son might pursue the ministry, a calling the extroverted athlete never received. The Columbus native competed on the baseball team at Ohio State University and also served as an illustrator for the college yearbook. In the fall of 1904—just months shy of his expected graduation—Bellows defied his father’s wishes and boarded a train to New York City in hopes of becoming a magazine illustrator like his idols Howard Chandler Christy and Charles Dana Gibson. Before leaving, he reportedly turned down an offer to play professional baseball with the Cincinnati Reds...
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1910s Ashcan School George Wesley Bellows Figurative Prints
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Tennis (Tennis Tournament)
By George Wesley Bellows
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A lithograph by George Bellows. “Tennis (Tennis Tournament)” is a realistic lithograph on paper in black and white by American Realist, George Bellows. Bellows’ depictions of sportin...
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1920s American Realist George Wesley Bellows Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
PUNCHINELLO IN THE HOUSE OF DEATH.
By George Wesley Bellows
Located in Portland, ME
Bellows, George (American 1882-1925). PUNCHINELLO IN THE HOUSE OF DEATH.Mason 151 Lithograph, 1923. Edition of 60. Titled and signed in pencil by Bellows, and also signed "Bolton Bro...
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1920s George Wesley Bellows Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
The Hold Up, First State
By George Wesley Bellows
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Signed in pencil by the artist lower right
Titled "Hold Up" by the artist in pencil.
Signed by the printer Bolton Brown lower left.
Edition: 42 in this state
Note: In The Hold Up, se...
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1920s American Realist George Wesley Bellows Figurative Prints
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Lithograph
THE LIFE CLASS - SECOND STONE (THE MODEL, LIFE CLASS).
By George Wesley Bellows
Located in Portland, ME
Bellows, George. THE LIFE CLASS - SECOND STONE (THE MODEL, LIFE
CLASS). Mason 43, Bellows 193. Lithograph, 1917. Edition of 49,
signed by Bellows. Inscribed "No.20," titled and sign...
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Early 20th Century George Wesley Bellows Figurative Prints
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The Tournament (Tennis at Newport)
By George Wesley Bellows
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A lithograph by George Bellows. “The Tournament (Tennis at Newport)” is a realistic lithograph on paper in black and white by American Realist artist, George Bellows. Bellows' depictions of sporting / leisure scenes are unique and valuable. This artwork is edition 56/63 with framed dimensions of 26 x 29 x 1 1/4 inches and has been in the same private collection for almost four decades. The artwork is signed in pencil, lower right, "G. Bellows.”
Provenance:
Catherine E Burns...
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1920s American Realist George Wesley Bellows Figurative Prints
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