George Bellows

When George Bellows died at the age of forty-two in 1925, he was hailed as one of the greatest artists America had yet produced. The National Gallery of Art of Washington (USA) will present, on June 10, the first comprehensive exhibition of Bellows' career in more than three decades. George Bellows will include some 130 paintings, drawings, and lithographs. Bellows is arguably the most important figure in the generation of artists who negotiated the transition from the Victorian to the modern era in American culture.

This exhibition will provide the most complete account of his achievements to date and will introduce Bellows to new generations. The accompanying catalogue will document and define Bellows' unique place in the history of American art and in the annals of modernism.

The exhibition will begin with Bellows' renowned paintings of tenement children, boxers, and the urban landscape of New York. These iconic images of the modern city were made during an extraordinary period of creativity for the artist, from shortly after his arrival from Columbus, Ohio, in 1904, up to the Armory Show in 1913, and remain his best-known works. They include Forty-Two Kids, 1907 (Corcoran Gallery of Art), New York, 1911 (National Gallery of Art), Stag at Sharkey's, 1909 (Cleveland Museum of Art), and Snow Dumpers, 1911 (Columbus Museum of Art).

Dates: from June 10 to October 8.
Location: National Gallery of Art. 4th and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20565. USA.
Opening hours: from Monday to Sunday from 10am to 5pm. Sunday from 11am to 6pm.

Enjoy more works by Bellows in the following slideshow: