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Item No: 25049
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| Keywords: Sky, Mountain, Water, Horse, Cart, Man, Bucket, Grass, Sand, Team, |
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Bellows, George (1882-1925)
George Bellows was born in Columbus, Ohio where he attended school before going on to Ohio State University. He was probably the first artist who ever gave up a possible career as a major league baseball player in order to paint. He went to New York in 1904 and studied with Robert Henri and H. G. Maratta before opening his own studio in 1906. A giant of a man with prodigious energy, Bellows turned out literally a flood of paintings from that time until his death. In 1908 he won the National Academy's first prize for landscape painting with the first landscape he painted, and was elected associate a year later making him one of the youngest men elected to the Academy in its history. Interested in physical strength and movement, Bellows at first painted in the manner of the Ashcan School, working in a rather grey colour tonality. As he progressed, a more sensuous palette replaced this tonality, his compositions became grander and more formal, and he displayed a dazzling technique that he applied to both landscape and portraits. His portraits are quite emotional with a sincerity that is moving. His landscapes range in mood from bright lyricism to mysterious sadness. Bellows began to produce lithographs in 1916, showing a mastery of the use of black and white through subtle gradations of grey tone. His promising career came to an abrupt and untimely end when he died of an attack of acute appendicitis. |
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