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"You can learn more in painting one street scene than in six months' work in an atelier." - George Wesley Bellows
Bellows was an athlete at Ohio State University before he went to New York City, where he studied art with HENRI. Bellows assimilated stylistic characteristics of the MUNICH SCHOOL and of HALS-a dark PALETTE against which white becomes luminous, bold "slashing" brushstrokes, and a coarseness that both reflected and created the subjects he painted. Bellows joined the ASHCAN painters and shared their commitment to experiencing and recording the unvarnished urban scene. His painting of street life on the Lower East Side, Cliff Dwellers (1913), shows the crowded, buzzing energy of tenement life in summer, when everyone lives outdoors. An ENGRAVING of this picture, published in the Socialist journal The Masses, carried the ironic quip "Why Don't They All Go to the Country for Vacation?" As did EAKINS before him, Bellows painted boxing pictures, but Bellows makes his predecessor's tough minded pictures seem dainty by comparison. Yet using the same dark palette and bold stroke, Bellows could also sensitively portray his blond-haired daughter, as he did in Anne in Black Velvet (1917).
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