George Wesley Bellows was an American realist painter, known for his bold depictions of urban life in New York City. He became, according to the Columbus Museum of Art, "the most acclaimed American artist of his generation".
George Bellows
George Bellows
Cliff Dwellers, (1913), Los Angeles County Museum of Art
A 1920 portrait painting of Waldo Peirce by George Bellows, on display at the de Young Museum in San Francisco
American Realism was a style in art, music and literature that depicted contemporary social realities and the lives and everyday activities of ordinary people. The movement began in literature in the mid-19th century, and became an important tendency in visual art in the early 20th century. Whether a cultural portrayal or a scenic view of downtown New York City, American realist works attempted to define what was real.
George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo (1924), Whitney Museum of American Art
George Bellows, New York (1911)
Ashcan School artists and friends at John French Sloan's Philadelphia Studio, 1898
The Ten American Painters in 1908. The 10 were Childe Hassam, J. Alden Weir, William Merritt Chase, Robert Reid, Willard Metcalf, Frank Weston Benson, Edmund Charles Tarbell, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Joseph DeCamp, and Edward Simmons.
