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George Bellows : painter with a punch!
No punches are pulled in this fascinating biography that covers the life and work of the prolific artist George Bellows. Having spent most of his adult life in New York City, Bellows left behind an extraordinary body of work that captures life in this dynamic city: bustling street scenes, ringside views of boxing matches, and boys diving and swimming in the East River. Art reproductions and photographs from his youth round out the book.
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George Bellows Revisited
This essay collection, by scholars from both the United States and Europe, carefully examines the artwork of one of the most important 20th-century American painters and printmakers, George Bellows. It builds on the Columbus Museum of Art's 2013 exhibition, George Bellows and the American Experience, and the National Gallery of Art's 2012 exhibition, George Bellows. The volume offers innovative research that explores his oeuvre from multiple viewpoints. The essays challenge widely held perceptions of Bellows, such as his Americanness, hyper-masculinity, patronage, response to the World War I, and his relationship to fellow artist Edward Hopper. This is an essential collection for any serious study on Bellows' work.
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Anecdote and the Painting of George Bellows
Excavation at Night (1908), George Bellows' second painting of the construction work undertaken for Pennsylvania Street Station, offers a dramatic depiction of the site that took up two full New York city-blocks. Bellows' decision to paint a nocturnal scene is vital to both the dramatic effect of the painting and its capacity to make an assertion about the ways in which the excavation could be perceived. In Electrifying America, David Nye suggests that the coming of electricity created the possibility of a new form of visual rhetoric. By making it possible to illuminate specific areas of the nocturnal city, electric light facilitated the privileging and deprivileging of certain spaces. By illuminating, and thus privileging, particular areas of the canvas, Bellows implements a similar rhetoric in Excavation at Night. Thus, illuminated by powerful electric lights, the snow covered far wall of the excavation and the row of buildings above it are placed in contrast, and possibly in opposition, with the man silhouetted by the light of the bonfire near the bottom edge of the canvas. The dramatic force of Bellows' “bravura” style raises the stakes in this contrast or opposition between the small-scale human activity around the fire and the large urban story of the excavation. In this article I intend to theorise Bellows' handling of smallness as an “anecdotal mode,” to suggest that “anecdote” may function both negatively and positively, and to show that this mode becomes particularly problematic when it is applied to city scenes.
Journal Article
Museum Today: George Bellows, Great Printmaker
An exhibit of 75 lithographs of George Bellows, currently touring the US, is reviewed.
Magazine Article
Figuring and Disfiguring: Joyce Carol Oates on Boxing and the Paintings of George Bellows
Addressing debates about the effects of representing bodily pain, this essay focuses on writings about boxing by Joyce Carol Oates and paintings by George Bellows. Emphasis is on the way that such representation can be an act of engagement that unmakes aesthetic barriers but can also increase rather than reduce the distance between actor and beholder.
Journal Article
Worlds of Meaning
Artists create works that express their perceptions of the world around them. Their world may be one that they observe and from which they select elements to convey ideas, emotions, values, attitudes, or their world may not be directly observable but based on feelings and ideas to which the artist gives form and expression. The following works suggest some concepts that are embedded in paintings by four American artists.
Journal Article
A work of art with an emphasis on work
At its thickest and most viscous in those drifts of snow in the foreground, it seems to have been poured on like cake icing, then scratched and scraped away with a variety of tools, from palette knives to brush handles.
Newspaper Article
QUICK TAKES; Bellows painting to be auctioned
\"Men of the Docks,\" a major painting by George Bellows and the longtime star of Randolph College's art collection in Lynchburg, Va., will be exhibited in a five-day auction preview opening Friday at Christie's Beverly Hills.
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