George Bellows

(American, 1882–1925)

Room Paintings holds 17 paintings by George Bellows, from the National Gallery of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. They date from 1907 to 1922. We file most of them under Ashcan School, and some under Realism and Impressionism. The most common subjects are children, women and cityscapes. 15 of them suit a room in our lists, most often the apartment or dorm and living room.

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Painting of a crowd of well-dressed light-skinned people in an open, snowy field surrounded by large rolling hills.

George Bellows Love of Winter, 1914 Art Institute of Chicago

Stag at Sharkey's, George Bellows, 1909, oil on canvas

George Bellows Stag at Sharkey's, 1909 Cleveland Museum of Art

From under an elevated train track, we look at a cluster of people hammering and working on the far side of a wooden fence, all against a silvery-blue building that fills most of the background in this horizontal painting.

George Bellows Blue Morning, 1909 National Gallery of Art

A six-story, narrow building stands alone in an otherwise unoccupied lot under the deck of a high bridge, with a river and cityscape in the background in this horizontal painting.

George Bellows The Lone Tenement, 1909 National Gallery of Art

This painting is a portrait of a seated woman shown from the knees upwards. She is seated in a woven yellow armchair, with her right arm resting on one arm of the chair, while her left hand rests on her lap.

George Bellows Florence Sittenham Davey (Mrs. Randall Davey), 1914 National Gallery of Art

We look slightly down onto a crush of pedestrians, horse-drawn carriages, wagons, and streetcars enclosed by a row of densely spaced buildings and skyscrapers opposite us in this horizontal painting.

George Bellows New York, 1911 National Gallery of Art

Two men wearing brief-like shorts, shoes, and boxing gloves curl toward each other as they grapple in the middle of a boxing ring in this horizontal painting. We look at the ring from across the heads of the crowd below and around us.

George Bellows Club Night, 1907 National Gallery of Art

This painting shows a seated woman from the waist up. Her body faces us, and she looks off to the right with a neutral expression. She has light skin, brown eyes, and rosy cheeks.

George Bellows Maud Murray Dale (Mrs. Chester Dale), 1919 National Gallery of Art

This painting shows a dynamic scene of a green tennis court with a player in action near the bottom-right corner, their hand extended behind their head and one leg in the air.

George Bellows Tennis Tournament, 1920 National Gallery of Art

Boy in a Blue Coat, George Bellows, 1915, oil on canvas

George Bellows Boy in a Blue Coat, 1915 Cleveland Museum of Art

This painting shows an adult woman and two children on a white lounge chair. The adult is sitting on the chair with her legs extended, supporting one of the children who is lying across her lap.

George Bellows My Family, 1916 National Gallery of Art

George Bellows Little Girl in White (Queenie Burnett), 1907 National Gallery of Art

This painting shows a young girl standing and facing forward. She is holding an open, dark-colored parasol with one hand and a small, indistinct object with the other hand.

George Bellows Anne with a Japanese Parasol, 1917 National Gallery of Art

This painting shows a man from the waist up, his body turned slightly to the right. He stands upright, looking at the viewer, holding a golf club or cane horizontally with both hands.

George Bellows Chester Dale, 1922 National Gallery of Art

From a darkened arena around a boxing ring, we look up at two bare chested men, one with pale, white skin and the other with brown skin, who lock arms in a boxing match in this horizontal painting.

George Bellows Both Members of This Club, 1909 National Gallery of Art

Show all works (2 more: nudes or violent scenes)

Our room, color and style lists leave these out. They are public domain like the rest.

This painting depicts a scene of conflict with several people in military garb. In the center, a shirtless person with pale skin is being restrained by soldiers.

George Bellows The Germans Arrive, 1918 National Gallery of Art

From a high vantage point, we look down ontp a group of dozens of boys who stand, sit, stretch, sprawl, or dangle their legs off a rough wooden pier that juts out from the lower left corner into a dark river in this horizonal painting.

George Bellows Forty-two Kids, 1907 National Gallery of Art