George Bellows

Washington, D.C., New York, London, and Munich: National Gallery of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Royal Academy of Arts; DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2012. Cloth, 335 pages, illustrations (chiefly colour); 30 cm. Exhibition organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington. Exhibition Dates, National Gallery of Art, Washington June 10 to October 8, 2012; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, November 14, 2012 to February 18, 2013; Royal Academy of Arts, London, March 16 to June 9, 2013. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "This richly illustrated and insightful publication will be the first truly comprehensive exhibition catalogue on the work of George Bellows (1182-1925), with ten thematic essays by leading art and social historians that will provide a rigorous analysis of Bellows' life and career. The catalogue will document the range of Bellow's artistic achievements in all mediums, reconsidering his standing in relationship to artists such as Hopper, Picasso and Manet in order to better understand his unique place in the history of both American and Western art." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Preface, by Franklin Kelly; Lenders to the Exhibition; George Bellows: An Unfinished Life, by Charles Brock; Election Night, Times Square: Spectacle, Politics, and the Young George Bellows, by Sean Wilentz; Tenement Life: Cliff Dwellers, 1906-1913, by Marianne Doezema; Life in the Ring: Boxing, 1907-1909, by David Peters Corbett; Working Life: Pennsylvania Station Excavation, 1907-1909, by Sarah Newman; Life by the River, 1908-1912, by Carol Troyen; Life of Leisure: Polo, Parks, and Tennis, 1910-1920, by David Park Curry; Life at Sea, 1911-1917, by Sarah Cash; Family Life: Portraiture, 1914-1923, by Melissa Wolfe; American Life: Drawing, Illustration, and Lithography, 1912-1924, by Robert Conway; War, 1918, by Carol Troyen; A Life Cut Short, 1924, by Mark Cole; The Record Books of George Bellows: A Visual Diary, by Glenn C. Peck.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 4to. Collectible.