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George Bellows, Master Realist

With H. Barbara Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Curator, Department of American Paintings and Sculpture.

By the time George Bellows died at age 42, he was deemed one of the greatest artists America had yet produced. Between 1905 and 1925, he enlisted a vigorous realist style to portray New York City’s sites and characters; Maine’s rugged coast; the atrocities of World War I; friends and family; and other distinctive subjects. Bellows’ paintings, drawings, and prints are intensely American and yet linked to European works that he studied here at home—at the Metropolitan Museum, for example—rather than by going abroad. These two lectures explore Bellows’ accomplishments in the context of his time and in relation to those of his contemporaries.

Today’s topic— Bellows Beyond the City.











When: Tue., Dec. 4, 2012 at 11:00 am
Where: Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave.
212-535-7710
Price: $25
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With H. Barbara Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Curator, Department of American Paintings and Sculpture.

By the time George Bellows died at age 42, he was deemed one of the greatest artists America had yet produced. Between 1905 and 1925, he enlisted a vigorous realist style to portray New York City’s sites and characters; Maine’s rugged coast; the atrocities of World War I; friends and family; and other distinctive subjects. Bellows’ paintings, drawings, and prints are intensely American and yet linked to European works that he studied here at home—at the Metropolitan Museum, for example—rather than by going abroad. These two lectures explore Bellows’ accomplishments in the context of his time and in relation to those of his contemporaries.

Today’s topic— Bellows Beyond the City.

Buy tickets/get more info now