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	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: George Bellows Exhibit at Fogg Brings Old Anti-War Message to Modern Audience
		Bellows produced all of the works in the series within a six-week period in the spring of 1918, adamant to photograph the most difficult of war crimes.
		Bellows was a member of the Ashcan School in the early decades of the twentieth century.
		Bellows was openly anti-war at the beginning of World War I. But by the end of the war, perhaps because of the very brutalities by the German forces he depicts, he had not only turned pro-war, but had even enlisted to fight.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=308426 (894 words)

	Harvard University Art Museums - Press Releases, 2003
		"Bellows meant for these works to address universal themes of inhumanity and suffering, and some of the images were also used as prowar propaganda for World War I," said Kimberly Orcutt, assistant curator of American art." "The acquisition of the lithographs comes at a time when war is once again a crucial issue.
		Bellows worked as an illustrator for newspapers and magazines, but he quickly became established as a painter and was particularly noted for his boxing scenes.
		Bellows enjoyed critical and financial success until his death of appendicitis at the height of his career, at the age of forty-two.
	www.artmuseums.harvard.edu /press/released2003/bellows.html (963 words)

	PlanetPapers - George Wesley Bellows
		Bellows was a pupil of Henri’s at the New York School of Art, and Henri was the dominant influence in his early work.
		Bellows was a student in Henri’s school, where he learned to use the world around him as the subject of his work.
		Bellows focused upon the physical agony of the boxers; they weren’t athletes in any middle class sense of the term, but men fighting for their lives (Oates 63).
	www.planetpapers.com /Assets/4199.php (2166 words)

	ARTFACT : Your Complete Resource to Research, Price and Find Antiques & Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Bellows had first visited Maine in 1911 and the anticipation of the temporary move with his wife and two young daughters was a welcome retreat for the artist from the restless winter months in New York.
		Bellows was "filled with awe" at the magnificent sight of the energetic workmen and created some of his most celebrated works from this period, including Shipyard Society (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia) and The Rope (Builders of Ships) (Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut).
		With the use of a brush and a palette knife, Bellows has aggressively painted and scratched away at the canvas, disrupting the surface to create varied and textured passages that echo the slickness of the rain falling on the street and whipping through the trees.
	www.artfact.com /features/styleLot.cfm?iid=UKEus2ix (1112 words)

	George Bellows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		George Bellows is consistently acclaimed as one of the greatest American painters of the Twentieth century.
		Bellows was also a pioneer in lithography collaborating with master printers Bolton Brown and George Miller to create a series of lithographs that were a pivotal achievement in the history of American printmaking.
		Bellows artwork is included in major graphics collections across the country including The National Gallery in Washington, D.C., The Museum of Fine Arts - Boston, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Chicago Art Institute, The Cleveland Museum of Art, and The Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.
	www.georgekrevskygallery.com /artists/bellows (244 words)

	SAAM :: Have a Question? Find an Answer
		Bellows had terminated his college education in Columbus, Ohio, to move to New York in 1904 to study art.
		Although Bellows did not exhibit with the group in 1908, he was clearly in sympathy with the style and content of work by its members: Henri, John Sloan, William Glackens, George Luks, and Everett Shinn.
		Bellows displayed a particular gift for capturing the energy and movement of crowds on the street and at public events.
	americanart.si.edu /search/artist_bio.cfm?StartRow=1&ID=329 (579 words)

	LACMA: American Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		George Wesley Bellows studied with the influential painter Robert Henri at the New York School of Art starting in 1904.
		Talented and widely recognized, Bellows at age twenty-seven became the youngest artist ever designated associate of the National Academy of Design, but he continued to support the avant-garde, and in 1913 (the year he gained full academician status) Bellows exhibited in the pivotal Armory Show, which he helped organize.
		Its meaning was confused by the fact that Bellows made a similar study with the editorializing title, "Why don't they go to the country for a vacation?" In fact Bellows and most artists of his group stopped short of overt polemics in their work.
	www.lacma.org /art/perm_col/american/amer.htm (3371 words)

	George Wesley Bellows -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The bellows was invented in the European Middle Ages and was commonly used to speed combustion, as in a flsmith's or ironworker's forge, or to operate...
		Among the United States artists included in the exhibit, most of them still unknown, was George Bellows, a realist whose paintings of city life were considered shocking in their crudity.
		Bellow's books are clearly influenced by his Jewish background, but they also reflect his belief that one of the writer's chief functions is to remind people of “their...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9015296 (722 words)

	Collective Connoisseurship - George Bellows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		George Bellows was Robert Henri's student at the New York School of Art and the two became life-long friends.
		Characteristic of Henri and many of his students, Bellows boldly marks the child's cheek with a splash of pink.
		This draws the viewer's eye to the sweet face of the subject who is thought to be the son of an American fisherman.
	www.amarilloart.org /cc_bellows.html (137 words)

	George Bellows
		Bellows studied at the New York School of Art under Robert Henri, leader of what became known as the Ashcan School.
		Bellows were deeply influenced by the events of the First World War and he completed a series of paintings and lithographs on the subject.
		George Bellows contributed another Jesus, in stripes now, with ball and chain and a crown of thorns: "The prisoner used language tending to discourage men from enlisting in the United States army: "Thou shalt not kill - Blessed are the peacemakers."
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /ARTbellows.htm (680 words)

	George Bellows
		Bellows showed a painting of the Pennsylvania Station excavation and the first of his boxing pictures, a pastel titled The Knock-Out.
		The next year Bellows was elected to the National Academy of Design.
		Bellows was a more ambitious painter than his older colleagues and more sophisticated in the way he handled color and materials; his paintings show an expressionistic boldness and a willingness to take risks.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/B/bellows.html (828 words)

	American Artist -- George Bellows
		Bellows was born in Columbus, Ohio, and received his early training at Ohio State University, where he excelled not only as an illustrator for the school's publication, The Makio, but also as a baseball and basketball player, and as a member of the men's chorus.
		Bellows is known, not only for his New York City urban views, landscapes, and psychologically-penetrating portraits, but also for his paintings and prints which convey his fascination with of athletic competition, most specifically, the boxing match.
		Bellows was a member of many art societies, including the National Academy of Design, National Institute of Arts and Letters (New York), Society of American Artists, and Society of Independent Artists.
	www.kenygalleries.com /images/ah-bellows/bellows-bio.html (533 words)

	The Vincent van Gogh Gallery
		George Bellows was born in Columbus, Ohio where he attended school before going on to Ohio State University.
		Interested in physical strength and movement, Bellows began by painting in the manner of the "Ashcan School", working in a rather gray color tonality.
		Bellows began to produce lithographs in 1916, showing a mastery of the use of fl and white through subtle gradations in tone.
	www.vangoghgallery.com /artistbios/George_Bellows.html (265 words)

	Leaving for the Country: George Bellows at Woodstock
		George Bellows (1882-1925) was among the most famous artists of his generation and was celebrated for his boxing -- inspired imagery such as the famous painting A Stag at Sharkey's.
		George Bellows spent several months each year with his family in Woodstock, where he was inspired by the same mountains, lakes, and fields that had drawn early American landscape painters such as Thomas Cole and Asher B. Durand.
		Bellows was able to paint portraits of his family at the center of Woodstock's activities.
	www.tfaoi.com /aa/4aa/4aa115.htm (951 words)

	MAM - Collection - Modern Art - George Bellows
		A star athlete through college, George Bellows ultimately pursued a career in art rather than sports, though he occasionally drew upon the latter for subject matter.
		Bellows began with similar gritty scenes and dark palette, eventually incorporating the brighter hues of European modernism.
		Deploring Sunday as “the worst thing that ever happened to America,” Bellows portrayed the “sawdust trail” of the evangelical circuit and the path to the altar by an almost caricatured rendering of enraptured believers.
	www.mam.org /collections/modernart_detail_bellows.htm (131 words)

	An American Pulse: The Lithographs of George Wesley Bellows
		Bellows' artistic vision focused on the familiar aspects of everyday life, as evidenced by the numerous genre scenes and family portraits he produced.
		The vision Bellows brought to lithography was expansive enough to range from scenes of the life of Christ to images depicting the atrocities of World War I. The museum's collection is representative of this diversity, and the exhibition will include examples of nearly all subjects Bellows addressed in this medium.
		George Wesley Bellows was born in Columbus, Ohio, the son of a successful building contractor.
	www.tfaoi.com /newsm1/n1m144.htm (826 words)

	Art/Auctions: American Paintings from the Collection of Rita and Daniel Fraad at Sotheby's December 1, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		George Bellows (1882-1925) was not an official member of The Eight but many of his works are closely aligned stylistically with the group.
		"Bellows," the catalogue entry continued, "was strongly influenced by his teacher and mentor Robert Henri, who encouraged his students to purse a modern and direct approach to their subjects.
		Bellows liked blues and greens in many of his compositions, of which this is one of the best.
	www.thecityreview.com /f04samp1.html (3092 words)

	Bellows
		George Billows of Wareham = Sarah Randell of Weymouth 11 Aug 1764 at Wyke
		George Baker Bellows, bapt 1779 son of George and Mary (nee Baker) Canford MAgna m1805 Mary Brock, married Wimborne Minster Dorset.
		BELLOWS Sarah; age 50; born Bere Regis, Dorset.
	www.geocities.com /colestips/Bellows.htm (551 words)

	artfacts.net: George Bellows
		George Bellows was born in Columbus, Ohio on 19th August, 1882.
		Bellows developed a strong social conscious and in 1911 began contributing pictures to the radical journal, The Masses.
		George Bellows died on 8th January, 1925 in New York after a neglected attack of appendicitis.
	www.artfacts.net /index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/21226 (317 words)

	George Wesley Bellows -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		Bellows attended Ohio State University before moving in 1904 to New York City, where he studied at the New York School of Art under Robert Henri, leader of the group of American realist painters called The Eight.
		Bellows was one of the organizers of the Armory Show of 1913, which introduced European modernist art to American artists and critics.
		The show had a marked influence on Bellows, and he supported many of the avant-garde art organizations then being established, including the Society of Independent Artists, of which he was a founding director.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article?tocId=9015296 (1016 words)

	George Bellows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		American painter and lithographer, Bellows was born in Columbus, Ohio and attended Ohio State University, where he was encouraged to pursue a career as a professional baseball player.
		Using broad, bold strokes and a masterful use of light and shade, Bellows was a master lithographer who produced 195 lithographs between 1916 and 1925.
		The second state is the most finished and least cartoonlike, as Bellows cut down the image substantially in the third state.
	www.bauerart.com /Bellows.html (297 words)

	George Bellows
		In its memorial tribute to George W. Bellows in 1925, ARTnews proclaimed, "America has lost perhaps her most vigorous and forthright painter,.
		His depictions of crowded neighborhoods, giant construction projects, and, most famously, fierce boxing matches at Sharkey's club-saloon reflect his interest in the tremendous sense of movement and change that characterized the metropolis.
		This portrait of Bellows was taken only a year before Bellows's death at age forty-two from appendicitis.
	www.npg.si.edu /cexh/artnews/bellows.htm (135 words)

	George Bellows - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		There Bellows elected to study not with the popular and flamboyant William Merritt Chase, but rather with the unorthodox realist Robert Henri.
		Bellows never became an official member of The Eight, but his choice of subjects--docks, street scenes, and prizefights--were typical of the group.
		Unlike the members of The Eight, Bellows' enjoyed popular success during his lifetime, particularly with the boxing images that demonstrate his passionate interest in sports and a bold understanding of the human figure.
	www.bonus.com /contour/national_gallery/http@@/www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pbio?2050 (258 words)

	The New Leader: The use and abuse of realism. (George Bellows exhibit; National Academy of Design, New York City)@ ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		(George Bellows exhibit; National Academy of Design, New York City)
		That false image is very quickly dispelled by a visit to the National Academy of Design in New York City, where 7k of the artist's lithographs are on display through October 29.
		Early in his career Bellows actually became established as an oil...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:8097201&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (190 words)

	Sister Wendy's American Collection \| Selected Works \| Stag at Sharkey's
		George Bellows, the semipro baseball player-turned-artist responsible for the enduring Stag at Sharkey's, was a disciple of the Philadelphia-born artist Robert Henri (pronounced "hen-rye").
		Henri and The Eight, a group which included John Sloan and George Luks (Bellows joined the group later) sought realism in art, finding their muse and their home in New York City.
		Despite a short career -- he died at 43 -- Bellows was one of Ashcan's stars.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/sisterwendy/works/sta.html (336 words)

	George Wesley Bellows
		Bellows, George Wesley, 1882–1925, American painter, draftsman, and lithographer, b.
		Bellows never visited Europe and seemed uninfluenced by the currents affecting his European contemporaries, but he actively supported independent art movements in New York City.
		Bellows revived lithography in the United States, and his prints are as important as his paintings.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0806919.html (162 words)

	Amazon.com: George Bellows: American Artist (Writers on Art): Books: Joyce Carol Oates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1882, George Bellows journeyed east in 1904, against his conservative father's wishes, and reinvented American art with his poetic realist canvases of New York City's teeming street life.
		Yet Bellows, who died of a ruptured appendix at the age of 42, also did throbbing, visceral seascapes, allegories and urban dreamscapes that call to mind Albert Pinkham Ryder.
		While not intended as a well-rounded exploration of Bellows, this rather short but intense book is a deep and strongly-felt critique of about 18 of his paintings.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0880014377?v=glance (638 words)

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