Saturday 8 December 2012

Ashcan School - George Bellows part 3

George Bellows (1882 – 1925) was an American painter and lithographer. He studied with Robert Henri at the New York School of Art and became associated with the artists of the Ashcan School. Best known for his boxing scenes, he achieved notoriety with his painting Stag at Sharkey's (1909), which depicts an illegal boxing match. He was one of the organisers of the Armory Show.

For biographical notes on Bellows see part 1. For earlier works see parts 1 - 2 also.

This is part 3 of a 6-part post on the works of George Bellows:


1913 From Rock Top, Monhegan 
oil on panel 38.1 x 49.5 cm

1913 Green Breaker 
oil on panel 38.1 x 49.5 cm

1913 Green Point 
oil on panel 38.1 x 49.5 cm

1913 Harbour at Monhegan 
oil on canvas 66 x 96.5 cm

1913 Hill and Valley
oil

1913 Monhegan Island 
oil on panel 45.7 x 55.9 cm

1913 Out of the Calm 
oil on panel 15 x 19.5 cm

1913 Pueblo, Tesuque, No. 1 
oil on canvas 102.2 x 106.7 cm

1913 Rock Bound 
oil on panel 45.7 x 55.9 cm

1913 Sea in Fog 
oil on panel 38.1 x 49.5 cm

1913 Sun Glow 
oil on panel 38.1 x 49.5 cm

1913 Sun and Spray 
oil on panel 35.6 x 49.53 cm

1913 Tang of the Sea 
oil on panel

1913 The Big Dory 
oil on panel 45.7 x 55.9 cm

1913 The Blue Pool 
oil on panel 38.1 x 49.5 cm

1913 The Grey Sea 
oil on panel 32.7 x 49.2 cm

1913 The Rich Water 
oil on panel 37.5 x 48.6 cm

1913 Through the Trees 
oil on board 38.1 x 49.5 cm

1913 Tide Ledge 
oil on panel 33.7 x 49.5 cm

1913 Vine Clad Shore - Monhegan Island 
oil on panel 38.1 x 49.5 cm

1913 Wave 
oil on canvas

1913 West Wind 
oil on panel

1913 William Oxley Thompson 
oil on canvas 203.2 x 101.6 cm

c1913 Shaghead 
oil on paperboard

1914 A Grandmother 
oil on panel 94 x 74.5 cm

1914 Emma at the Piano
oil

1914 Emma in Night Light 
oil on panel 56 x 46 cm

1914 Evening Group 
tempera on canvas 63.5 x 76.2 cm

1914 Florence Pierce 
oil on canvas 97 x 76 cm

1914 Love of Winter 
oil on canvas 82.5 x 102.9 cm

1914 Madeline Davis 
tempera on canvas 76.2 x 63.5 cm

1914 Portrait of Geraldine Lee, No. 1 
oil on panel 22.5 x 18.25 cm

1914 Summer Surf 
oil on panel

1915 Easter Snow 
oil on canvas 86.4 x 114.3 cm

1915 Lucie 
oil on canvas 56 x 48 cm

1915 Nude Girl with a  Parrot 
oil on canvas 100.3 x 78.7 cm

1915 Parrot 
oil on canvas 49.2 x 38.1 cm


1915 Riverfront 
oil on canvas 115.2 x 160.3 cm 
Awarded the gold medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915

1916 Anne with Her Parasol 
oil on canvas 110.5 x 84.5 cm

1916 Builders of Ships 
oil on canvas 76.2 x 111.8 cm

Thursday 6 December 2012

Ashcan School - George Bellows part 2




George ellows (1882 – 1925) was an American painter and lithographer. He studied with Robert Henri at the New York School of Art and became associated with the artists of the Ashcan School. Best known for his boxing scenes, he achieved notoriety with his painting Stag at Sharkey's (1909), which depicts an illegal boxing match. He was one of the organizers of the Armory Show.

For full biographical notes on Bellows and for earlier works, see part 1. 

This is part 2 of a 6-part post on the works of George Bellows:


1909 The Palisades
oil on canvas 76.2 x 96.8 cm

1909 The Stone Fence 
oil on canvas 45.7 x 61 cm

1909 Winter Afternoon 
oil on canvas 76.2 x 96.5 cm

1910 A Morning Snow - Hudson River 
oil on canvas 114.6 x 160.7 cm

1910 Blue Snow, the Battery 
oil on canvas 86.4 x 111.8 cm

1910 Crowd at the Polo Game 
oil on canvas 114.6 x 161 cm

1910 Floating Ice 
oil on canvas 114.3 x 160 cm

1910 Polo at Lakewood 
oil on canvas 114.9 x 161.3 cm

1910 Polo Game 
oil on canvas

1911 An Island in the Sea 
oil on canvas 87 x 112.7 cm

1911 Breaking Sky, Monhegan 
oil on canvas 11.2 x 15.2 cm

1911 Docks in Winter 
oil on canvas 76.2 x 111.8 cm

1911 Evening Swell 
oil on canvas 76.2 x 96.5 cm

1911 Gorge and Sea 
oil on canvas 86.4 x 26 cm

1911 Gull Rock and Whitehead 
oil on canvas 28.2 x 36.1 cm

1911 New York 
oil on canvas 106.7 x 152.4 cm

1911 Shore House 
oil on canvas 101.6 x 106.7 cm

1911 Snow Dumpers 
oil on canvas 91.8 x 122.2 cm

1911 Snow-Capped River 
oil on canvas 115.9 x 161 cm

1911 Sunset, Jersey Hills 
oil on canvasboard 28.6 x 38.7 cm

1911 The Sea 
oil on canvas 86.4 x 112.1 cm

1912 Counted Out 
lithographic crayon and charcoal, brush and ink over graphite 64.8 x 52.6 cm

1912 Evening Hills, Catskill Mountains 
oil on panel

1912 Men of the Docks 
oil on canvas 114 x 161 cm

1912 Mrs. Albert M. Miller 
oil on canvas 196 x 102 cm

1912 My Baby 
oil on canvas 72.4 x 57.1 cm

1912 Portrait of Dr. Walter Quincy Scott 
oil on canvas 111.8 x 86.4 cm

1912 Portrait of Professor Joseph Russell Taylor 
oil on canvas 97.2 x 81.6 cm

1912 The Circus 
oil on canvas 86 x 111.8 cm

1912 Winter Road 
oil on canvas 86.4 x 111.8 cm

1913 Approach of Rain 
oil on panel 33.5 x 49.5 cm

1913 Beating out to Sea 
oil on panel

1913 Blackhead and Sea 
oil on panel 38.1 x 49.5 cm

1913 Churn and Break 
oil on panel 45.1 x 55.9 cm

1913 Cliff Dwellers 
oil on canvas 102.1 x 106.8 cm

1913 Cliff Dwellers 
watercolour, pen and brush and ink, crayon and charcoal on paper 54.2 x 68.8 cm

1913 Evening Blue 
oil on panel 44.4 x 54.6 cm

1913 Fern Woods 
oil on board 38.1 x 49.5 cm

1913 Flaming Breakers 
oil on panel 15 x 19.5 cm

1913 Fog Rainbow 
oil on panel 45.7 x 55.9 cm

1913 Forth and Back 
oil on panel 38.1 x 49.5 cm