George Wesley Bellows (1882–1925)
GEORGE WESLEY BELLOWS (1882–1925) Portrait of Elizabeth Alexander Oil on canvas, 53 x 43 in. Signed and inscribed (at lower right): Geo Bellows; (on the back, prior to lining): Portrait Elizabeth Alexander / Geo. Bellows / 146 E. 19 St. / NY Painted in September 1924 RECORDED: George Bellows, “Record Book C,” (unpub. ms., copy on deposit, H. V. Allison Galleries, New York, Sept. 1916), p. 19 // “Last Canvases by Bellows on View,” The Art News XXIII, no. 18 (February 7, 1925), p. 3 // “The Democracy of Bellows,” Boston Evening Transcript, March 11, 1925, p. 28 // Charles H. Morgan, George Bellows: Painter of America (1965), p. 291 // Journal of the American Medical Association CCXLVII, no. 24 (June 25, 1982), illus. in color on cover // American Paintings VI, exhib. cat. (New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, 1990), pp. 144–45 illus. in color // Valerie Ann Leeds et al., Spanish Sojourns: Robert Henri and the Spirit of Spain, exhib. cat. (Savannah, Georgia: Telfair Museums, 2013), pp. 63 fig. 46 illus. in color 2 EXHIBITED: Art Institute of Chicago, 1924–25, A Special Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, Leon Kroll, Eugene Savage, Walter Ufer, Paul Bartlett, Edgar Cameron, H. Amiard Oberteuffer, George Oberteuffer, no. 22 // Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York, 1925, Paintings by George Bellows, no. 6 // Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts, 1925, Paintings by George Bellows, no. 4, as “Elizabeth” // Boston Art Club, 1925, Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, Charles Hopkinson, and Eugene Speicher, no. 6, as “Elizabeth” // Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, 1925, Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, Charles Hopkinson, and Robert Henri, no.
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