George Bellows National Gallery of Art retrospective
The National Gallery of Art has announced the first full retrospective of American artist George Bellows in more than three decades will open in 2012.
Bellows, one of the artists of the Ashcan School of Realists, was an important transitional figure between the Victorian and modern eras. Widely known for his dramatic scenes of boxers and urban life, Bellows was interested in everything around him. His work is celebrated for its detailed renderings of dreary life in New York, with laundry hanging out apartment windows and people crowded on tenement steps. But he found a contrast in the lyrical views of snow in the parks, and in formal portraits, mostly of his family.
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