|aWashington :|bNational Gallery of Art ;|aNew York :|bThe Metropolitan Museum of Art ;|aLondon :|bRoyal Academy of Arts ;|aMunich ;|aLondon ;|aNew York :|bDelMonico Books/Prestel,|cc2012.
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|aThe exhibition is organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Exhibition Dates, National Gallery of Art, Washington June 10-October 8, 2012, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 14, 2012-February 18, 2013, Royal Academy of Arts, London, March 16-June 9, 2013.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references (p. (310-314) and index.
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|aPreface / Franklin Kelly -- 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.
Published in conjunction with a major retrospective exhibition, this book documents the artist's career from his youthful meteoric rise to the largely unexplored period preceding his death. Mentored by Robert Henri, leader of the Ashcan school in New York in the early part of the twentieth century, Bellows skilfully and audaciously painted the world around him: street children, tenements, boxers, urban and rural landscapes, seascapes, war scenes, and family portraiture. He was also an accomplished graphic artist whose illustrations and lithographs addressed a wide array of social, religious, and political subjects. Nearly 200 reproductions from every stage of Bellows' career are accompanied by a series of essays that offer a substantial reconsideration of the artist, drawing comparisons to Manet, Goya, El Greco, and Picasso, and tracing his rise to the emergence of other American greats such as Edward Hopper. A chronology and two appendices devoted to Bellows' personal record book and his published illustrations for periodicals such as The Masses and Harper's Weekly reveal the full range of his remarkable artistic achievements.Authoritative and exhaustive, this groundbreaking book firmly establishes Bellows' unique place in the history of both American art and Western art in general.