#george bellows

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George Bellows - A Cloudy Day (1908)

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George Bellows Nude Girl, Miss Leslie Hall 1909

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George Bellows (American, 1882-1925), Tennis Tournament, 1920. Oil on canvas, 59 x 66 in.

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George Bellows. Mountain Farm, 1922.

oil on board

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Shower Bath (1917), George Bellows

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The White Horse by George Bellows, 1922

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Cliff Dwellers, George Bellows, 1913

Oil on canvas 40 3/16 x 42 1/16 in. (102.07 x 106.83 cm) Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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The Cliff Dwellers, George Bellows

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The Lone Tenement, George Bellows, 1909

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Florence Davey

Artist: George Wesley Bellows (American, 1882 - 1925)

Genre: Portrait

Date: 1914

Medium: Oil on Panel

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Florence Sittenham Davey (Mrs. Randall Davey)

Painted on Monhegan Island in Maine in August 1914, this portrait represents Florence Sittenham Davey, the wife of Bellows’ friend, the artist Randall Davey. Florence Davey was a modernist sculptor who had studied with Alexander Archipenko. According to the Davey's son William, Bellows lost a considerable amount of money to his father playing pool and painted the portrait to settle his debt.

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George Bellows - The Warships (1909)

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Counted Out, First Stone., 1921. George Bellows, 1882-1925. Signed lithograph.

“I can entertain the proposition that life is a metaphor for boxing-for one of those bouts that go on and on, round following round, jabs, missed punches, clinches, nothing determined, again the bell and again and you and your opponent so evenly matched it’s impossible to see your opponent is you …” ― Joyce Carol Oates, On Boxing

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George Bellows (1882–1925)

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George Bellows

Blue Morning, 1908

National Gallery of Art

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'Both Members of This Club' (1909) - George Bellows, National Gallery, Washington DC

"Painted in October 1909... The painting’s title is a reference to the practice in private athletic clubs of introducing the contestants to the audience as “both members” to circumvent the Lewis Law of 1900 that had banned public boxing matches in New York State. Boxing was a controversial subject, but the interracial theme made this painting even more so, especially since the black boxer appears to be winning the match.

It is likely that Bellows intended Both Members of This Club as an allusion to the recent and much-publicized success of the African American professional prizefighter Jack Johnson, who had won the world heavyweight championship in 1908. The idea of a black boxing champion was so unsettling to the prejudiced social order of the time that many thought interracial bouts should be outlawed. Painted at the height of the Jim Crow era, Bellows’s powerful delineation of a white fighter about to be defeated by a black opponent was an exceptionally daring and provocative piece of social commentary."