George Bellows: An Artist in Action
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Individual Artists
George Bellows: An Artist in Action Details
From Booklist Action is the key to George Bellows and his vital paintings. Known best for his extraordinarily dynamic and dramatic paintings of boxers in the ring, Bellows himself was athletic, leading art critic Haverstock to wonder if he possessed "an innate kinetic sensibility" that somehow enabled him to capture motion with such thrilling specificity. Haverstock herself adeptly conveys the high energy and bright spirit of her subject, from his questing boyhood in Columbus, Ohio, where his natural-born gift for art was matched by prowess on the baseball field, to his rapid success in New York, beginning in 1905, when he found an ideal mentor in renowned artist and teacher Robert Henri and a treasury of subjects in a city undergoing a dazzling metamorphosis. An unusually upbeat, family-loving artist whose humanitarian values inspired both his candid depictions of the grittier side of life and his landscapes and portraits of brilliant expression, Bellows died too soon in 1925 at age 42. In a handsome volume brimming with rarely reproduced work, Haverstock renews appreciation for this quintessential American painter. Seaman, Donna Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Read more About the Author Mary Sayre Haverstock, former Director of the Ohio Artists Project, is an affiliate scholar at Oberlin College, Ohio. She has been an art critic for the Washington Post and contributing editor of Art in America. Read more
Reviews
I was hoping the images of his work would be larger and more detail close ups of his work would be included. Only a few of his works are presented in full page format and in no cases were there close ups that allowed you to fully appreciate Bellows' amazing brushwork. Some of the color reproductions seemed very good but others seemed too dark. The cover jacket on the advertised book is differed from what I received.
