biography
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Bellows, George (Wesley)
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| (1882–1925)
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| biography:
| Painter and lithographer, born in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He studied at the University of Ohio, then rejected the possibility of a career in baseball, and instead came to New York to study painting with Robert Henri (1904). His life-long interest in athletics was reflected in many of his strongest paintings, such as ‘Stag at Sharkey's’ (1907). He helped to organize the famous Armory Show (1913) but continued to work within the more conservative traditions of social realism and family portraiture. Moved by the horrors of World War 1, he produced a powerful series of anti-war paintings. In 1916 he took up lithography and book illustrations, and is credited with reviving these as serious mediums for American artists. |
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