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George Wesley Bellows: The Lone Tenement, 1909
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George Wesley Bellows

[American Ashcan School Painter, 1882-1925]

• Also known as:  George Bellows
• Relationships: Studied under Robert Henri and William Merritt Chase.
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Original works by George Wesley Bellows available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Notable SiteArt Institute of Chicago

Notable SiteArt Institute of Chicago Art Explorer - Images and Text Resources
Detailed information about the artist and his works

Notable SiteButler Institute of American Art, Ohio
Geraldine Lee #2, 1914

Notable SiteGeorge Wesley Bellows at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan

Notable SiteFine Arts Museums of San Francisco
17 works by George Wesley Bellows

Notable SiteHirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
8 works online

Notable SiteGeorge Wesley Bellows at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  
Tennis at Newport, 1919 (Zoom)

Notable SiteMuseum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  
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Notable SiteMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston  
Paintings collection online

Notable SiteMuseum of Modern Art, New York City  

Notable SiteMuseum of Modern Art, New York City  
Dempsey and Firpo, 1924
(In the "Lithograph" section)

Notable SiteGeorge Wesley Bellows at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
27 works by George Wesley Bellows

Notable SiteSan Diego Museum of Art, California
"An American Pulse: The Lithographs of George Bellows"

Notable SiteGeorge Wesley Bellows at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Exhibition: Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and their New York

Notable SiteGeorge Wesley Bellows at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
Works from the Smithsonian American Art Museum's database

Notable SiteThe Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
3 works online

Notable SiteYale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut  
Lady Jean

Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Amon Carter Museum, Texas
A Stag at Sharkey's

Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana   NEW!
2 works online

Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
Splinter Beach, 1916

Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
2 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)

Brauer Museum of Art at Valparaiso University, Indiana

Brooklyn Museum, New York City   NEW!
Business Men's Class, lithograph, 1916

Brooklyn Museum, New York City   NEW!

Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
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Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Mountainous Landscape with River Boat

Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
Woman on a Sofa

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Cedarhurst Center For The Arts, Mt. Vernon, Illinois
(Scroll right to images 20 and 21)

Cedarhurst Center For The Arts, Mt. Vernon, Illinois
Jean in a Black Hat, 1924 (see image 6)

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
Blue Snow, The Battery, 1910

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Forty-two Kids

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
A new museum scheduled to open in 2009
Excavation at Night, 1908

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
A new museum scheduled to open in 2009
The Studio, 1919

Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
3 works online

Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Portrait of Robert Aitken, 1921

Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
7 works online

Five College Museums Collections Database, Massachusetts

Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Information about the 2007 exhibition The Powerful Hand of George Bellows: Drawings from the Boston Public Library

Harn Museum at the University of Florida, Gainesville
Jim Twadell's Place, 1924

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts

Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
The White Fence, 1920

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana

Joslyn Art Museum, Nebraska
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Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Blackhead, Evening Gray, 1911 (PDF document)

George Wesley Bellows in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Maier Museum of Art at Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Virginia
(Note: Click the title to view the artwork details, not the thumbnail image.)

Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
11 works

Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
3 works online

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota  
4 works online

National Academy Museum & School of Fine Arts, New York City
Paul H. Manship, 1915
Three Rollers, 1911

National Art Museum of Sport at Indiana University, Indianapolis

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Winter Afternoon, Riverside Park, New York City, 1909

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Grandma Bellows, 1919

Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Between Rounds No. 1, 1916

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia

Portland Museum of Art, Maine

Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey   NEW!

Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania
The Launching

Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College, California

San Diego Museum of Art, California
Requires Flash: Click on "Artist Index", then on "B"

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Steaming Streets, 1908

Sheldon Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Tin Can Battle, San Juan Hill, New York, drawing, 1907

Springfield Museum of Art, Ohio

Swope Art Museum, Indiana
Freighter (The Freighter, Monhegan, Maine and Summer Breeze), 1913

Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
3 works online

The Huntington Library, California

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid   NEW!
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Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
A Stag at Sharkey's
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U.S. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
The Drunk, lithograph, ca.1924

U.S. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
In the Subway, lithograph, 1921

Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
7 works online

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
Dempsey and Firpo, 1924

Wichita Art Museum, Kansas   NEW!

Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
Portrait of a Young Man, ca.1906-09

Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
The White Horse, 1922

 
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:

Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)

 
Pictures from Image Archives:
Notable SiteGeorge Wesley Bellows in the Art Renewal Center

Notable SiteGeorge Wesley Bellows in the Artchive  

Notable SiteArtcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: The Lone Tenement, 1909

Notable SiteCGFA  

Notable SiteThe Athenaeum  
Numerous works online by Bellows

Notable SiteWikimedia Commons Image Database  

California State University WorldImages Database  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

MyStudios

The History Project at U.C. Davis   NEW!  

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Miscellaneous Sites:
PBS
Stag at Sharkey's
Commentary from "Sister Wendy's American Collection"

 
Articles and Reference Sites:
Notable SiteEncyclopedia Britannica complete article on George Wesley Bellows  
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Notable SiteGrove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)  

Notable SiteUnion List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Notable SiteWikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

American Art Magazine
"The Man in the Middle: George Bellows, War, and "Sergeant" Delaney"

Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)   NEW!  

Resource Library Magazine
An American Pulse: The Lithographs of George Wesley Bellows

Resource Library Magazine
George Bellows: Love of Winter

Resource Library Magazine
George Bellows: The War Series

Spartacus Educational Books
War Artists of W.W.I.

Time Magazine
"A Passion for Islands", 1992 article by Robert Hughes


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George Bellows and Urban America


 
 
 
 
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