Nude with Red Hair (1920) by George Wesley Bellows, from the Original, Framed Art Print

Original public domain image from the National Gallery of Art, digitally enhanced. Oil on canvas. Sitter unidentified.

Original dimensions: height 110.9 cm (43.6 inches) and width 86.5 cm (34 inches).

George Wesley Bellows was an American realist painter, known for his bold depictions of urban life in New York City, becoming, according to the Columbus Museum of Art, "the most acclaimed American artist of his generation."

In early life Bellows was a student of Robert Henri in New York City, before the later-famous artist had set up his own famous school, who at the time was teaching at the New York School of Art. While studying there, Bellows became associated with the Ashcan School, a group of artists who advocated painting contemporary American society in all its forms. By 1906, Bellows and fellow art student Edward Keefe had set up a studio at 1947 Broadway Street.

His work typically portrays urban New York scenes, showing the crudity and chaos of working-class people, neighbourhoods, and satirizing the upper classes. From 1907 through 1915, he executed a series of paintings depicting New York City under snowfall. In these paintings Bellows developed his strong sense of light and visual texture, exhibiting a stark contrast between the blue and white expanses of snow and the rough and grimy surfaces of city structures, and creating an aesthetically ironic image of the equally rough and grimy men struggling to clear away the nuisance of the pure snow. 

He taught at the first Modern School in New York City and served on the editorial board of the socialist journal, The Masses, to which he contributed many drawings and prints beginning in 1911. However, he was often at odds with other contributors due to his belief that artistic freedom should trump any ideological editorial policy. Bellows also notably dissented from New York society with his very public support of US intervention in World War One. His work was also highly critical of the domestic censorship and persecution of anti-war dissenters conducted by the US government under the Espionage Act.

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