Boxing painting george bellows biography
Boxing painting george bellows biography
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George Bellows
American painter
George Wesley Bellows (August 12[1][2] or August 19,[3][4][5] 1882 – January 8, 1925) was an American realistpainter, 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".[6]
Youth
George Wesley[7] Bellows was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio.[8] He was the only child of George Bellows and Anna Wilhelmina Smith Bellows (he had a half-sister, Laura, 18 years his senior).
He was born four years after his parents married, at the ages of fifty (George) and forty (Anna).[9] His mother was the daughter of a whaling captain based in Sag Harbor, Long Island, and his family returned there for their summer vacations.[9][10] He began drawing well before kindergarten, and his elementary–school teachers often asked him to decorate