George Wesley Bellows, August 12, 1882 – January 8, 1925, was an American painter and lithographer associated with the Ashcan School. Born in Columbus, Ohio, he studied at Ohio State University before moving to New York, where he trained with Robert Henri at the New York School of Art.
Bellows painted urban street scenes, boxing subjects, construction sites, portraits, seascapes, and later family and rural subjects. He was associated with Henri’s circle and with artists including John Sloan, William Glackens, George Luks, and Everett Shinn.
Bellows taught at the Art Students League of New York and made lithographs as a major part of his later work. His work is held by the Columbus Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery, London, and other major collections.
George Wesley Bellows, c 1900
Central Park, 1905
Oil on canvas, 21.4 x 25.5 in
Ohio State University Faculty Club, Columbus
Pennsylvania Excavation, 1907
Oil on canvas, 33.9 x 44 in
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton
Blue Morning, 1909
Oil on canvas, 33.9 x 43.9 in
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
The Bridge, Blackwell’s Island, 1909
Oil on canvas, 34 x 44 in
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo
Blue Snow, The Battery, 1910
Oil on canvas, 34 x 44 in
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus
North River, 1908
Oil on canvas, 32.8 x 42.9 in
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
New York, 1911
Oil on canvas, 42 x 60 in
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Snow Dumpers, 1911
Oil on canvas, 36.1 x 48.1 in
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus
Men of the Docks, 1912
Oil on canvas, 45 x 63.5 in
National Gallery, London
Mrs. Albert M. Miller, 1913
Oil on canvas, 77 x 40.3 in
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus
Mrs. H. B. Arnold, 1913
Oil on canvas, 77.5 x 37 in
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus
Love of Winter, 1914
Oil on canvas, 32.5 x 40.5 in
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
A Grandmother, 1914
Oil on panel, 37 x 29.3 in
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Nude with Parrot, 1915
Oil on canvas, 40 x 32 in
Private Collection
Riverfront No. 1, 1915
Oil on canvas, 45.3 x 63.1 in
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus
Breaking Sky, Monhegan, c 1916
Oil on canvas, 4 x 6 in
Private Collection
Builders of Ships/The Rope, 1916
Oil on canvas, 30 x 44 in
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
The Sawdust Trail, 1916
Oil on canvas, 63 x 45.1 in
Milwaukee Art Museum
The Fisherman, 1917
Oil on canvas, 30 x 44 in
Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth
Boy and Calf, Coming Storm, 1919
Oil on canvas, 26.3 x 38.3 in
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus
Emma in a Purple Dress, 1920–1923
Oil on canvas, 63 x 51 in
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
The Pool-Player, 1921
Lithograph, 5.1 x 10.1 in
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus