Author: Brock, Charles (editor)
Title: George Bellows
Description: Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 2012. Softcover. Color illus. wraps, French flaps, 335 pp. 149 color plates, many more color & BW illus. Issued in conjunction with several 2012-2013 exhibitions featuring works by American realist painter George Bellows (1882-1925). This richly illustrated and insightful publication will be the first truly comprehensive exhibition catalogue on the work of George Bellows (1882-1925), with ten thematic essays by leading art and social historians that will provide a rigorous analysis of Bellows' life and career. The catalogue will document the range of Bellow's artistic achievements in all mediums, reconsidering his standing in relationship to artists such as Hopper, Picasso and Manet in order to better understand his unique place in the history of both American and Western art. Contents as follows: Preface -- Lenders to the exhibition -- George Bellows: an unfinished life / Charles Brock -- Election night, Times Square: spectacle, politics, and the young George Bellows / Sean Wilentz -- Tenement life: cliff dwellers, 1906-1913 / Marianne Doezema -- Life in the ring: boxing, 1907-1909 / David Peters Corbett -- Working life: Pennsylvania Station excavation, 1907-1909 / Sarah Newman -- Life by the river, 1908-1912 / Carol Troyen -- Life of leisure: polo, parks, and tennis, 1910-1920 / David Park Curry -- Life at sea, 1911-1917 / Sarah Cash -- Family life: portraiture, 1914-1923 / Melissa Wolfe -- American life: drawing, illustration, and lithography, 1912-1924 / Robert Conway -- War, 1918 / Carol Troyen -- A life cut short, 1924 / Mark Cole -- The record books of George Bellows: a visual diary / Glenn C. Peck. VG (light scuffs, scratches to wraps; edge-wear. light rubbing to corners) .

Keywords: American Artists ; Bellows, George ; ;


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