George Bellows Forty two Kids Painting ID:: 2312 George Bellows1.jpg
Forty two Kids
George Bellows Excavation at Night (mk43) Painting ID:: 25720 new8/George Bellows-422698.jpg
Excavation at Night (mk43) 1907
George Bellows The Circus Painting ID:: 39305 new12/George Bellows-565786.jpg
The Circus mk146
1912
George Bellows Excavation at Night Painting ID:: 39761 new12/George Bellows-359222.jpg
Excavation at Night mk151
1908
George Bellows River Rats Painting ID:: 39784 new12/George Bellows-556585.jpg
River Rats mk151
1906
George Bellows Kids Painting ID:: 39785 new12/George Bellows-286982.jpg
Kids mk151
1906
George Bellows Set-to Painting ID:: 50486 new18/George Bellows-868288.jpg
Set-to mk212
1909
Oil on canvas
92.1x122.6cm
George Bellows pennsylvania station excavation Painting ID:: 56394 new20/George Bellows-825762.jpg
pennsylvania station excavation mk247
1907 to 08,oil on canvas,31.125x38.25 in,79x97 cm,brooklyn museum of art,brooklyn,ny,usa
George Bellows Builders of Ships Painting ID:: 72884 new24/George Bellows-546356.jpg
Builders of Ships "Builders of Ships," oil on canvas, by the American artist George Bellows. 30 in. x 44 in. Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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George Bellows Lady Jean Painting ID:: 73972 new24/George Bellows-898738.jpg
Lady Jean oil on canvas, by the American artist George Wesley Bellows. 72 in. x 36 in. The portrait of 'Lady Jean' is that of Bellows' daughter Jean. Bequest of Stephen Carlton Clark, B.A. 1903. Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
Date 1924(1924)
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George Bellows Builders of Ships Painting ID:: 74683 new24/George Bellows-494384.jpg
Builders of Ships Builders of Ships," oil on canvas, by the American artist George Bellows. 30 in. x 44 in. Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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George Bellows The Barricade Painting ID:: 94680 new26/George Bellows-936884.jpg
The Barricade Date
English: 1918
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
48.125 x 83.5 in (122.2 x 212.1 cm)
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George Bellows The Lone Tenement Painting ID:: 96982 new26/George Bellows-756897.jpg
The Lone Tenement 1909(1909)
Medium oil on canvas
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1882-1925
Growing prestige as a painter brought changes in his life and work. Though he continued his earlier themes, Bellows also began to receive portrait commissions, as well as social invitations, from New York's wealthy elite. Additionally, he followed Henri's lead and began to summer in Maine, painting seascapes on Monhegan and Matinicus islands.
At the same time, the always socially conscious Bellows also associated with a group of radical artists and activists called "the Lyrical Left", who tended towards anarchism in their extreme advocacy of individual rights. He taught at the first Modern School in New York City (as did his mentor, Henri), and served on the editorial board of the socialist journal, The Masses, to which he contributed many drawings and prints beginning in 1911. However, he was often at odds with the other contributors because of his belief that artistic freedom should trump any ideological editorial policy. Bellows also notably dissented from this circle in his very public support of U.S. intervention in World War I. In 1918, he created a series of lithographs and paintings that graphically depicted the atrocities committed by Germany during its invasion of Belgium. Notable among these was The Germans Arrive, which was based on an actual account and gruesomely illustrated a German soldier restraining a Belgian teen whose hands had just been severed. However, his work was also highly critical of the domestic censorship and persecution of anti-war dissenters conducted by the U.S. government under the Espionage Act.