George BellowsAmerican, 1882–1925Figures on the Beach
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- 1950.450
In the catalog
Sources
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art — Museum open access
Meanwhile, in the life of George Bellows
The whole life1901
Turns down a baseball team’s offer
In his senior year a baseball scout from the Indianapolis team makes him an offer, but he declines and enrols at Ohio State University.
1904
From Ohio to New York: a pupil of Robert Henri
Although his parents do not encourage it, he leaves the university just before graduating and moves to New York City to study art. He soon becomes a student of Robert Henri at the New York School of Art and is drawn into Henri’s “The Eight” and the Ashcan School.
1908
Exhibition of Henri’s pupils: first wide notice
Together with other pupils of Henri he organizes an exhibition of mostly urban studies: many critics find them crudely painted, others welcome their audacity as a step beyond the work of his teacher; it brings him his first widespread notice. Other accounts say the exhibition was organized by Henri himself.
1909 · Award
the National Academy of Design
A year after his first success he becomes a member of the National Academy of Design.
January 1925
Peritonitis from a neglected appendix
After a ruptured appendix that he fails to tend to in time, peritonitis sets in; the artist dies on 8 January 1925, aged forty-two, survived by his wife Emma and daughters Anne and Jean.
8 January 1925
Died
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