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George Bellows
George Wesley Bellows (August 12〔(Encyclopædia Britannica: George Bellows )〕〔(Smithsonian: By George, Happy Birthday )〕 or August 19,〔(Ohio History Central: George Bellows )〕〔(Art In The Picture: George Bellows )〕〔(Encyclopedia of World Biography on George Wesley Bellows )〕 1882 – January 8, 1925) 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".〔(Curator's View, Columbus Museum of Art ) Retrieved July 12, 2007〕
==Youth==
George Wesley〔Bellows' middle name was bestowed by his mother in the earnest hope that the child would become a Methodist Bishop.〕 Bellows was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio.〔His family home was a sturdy brick house at 265 East Rich Street in Columbus.〕 He was the only child of George Bellows and Anna Wilhelmina Smith Bellows (he had a half-sister, Laura, 18 years his senior). He was born four years after his parents married, at the ages of fifty (George) and forty (Anna).〔.〕 His mother was the daughter of a whaling captain based in Sag Harbor, Long Island, and his family returned there for their summer vacations.〔〔''The boy who chose the brush over baseball'' Smithsonian, June 1992, pp. 58-70〕 He began drawing well before kindergarten, and his elementary–school teachers often asked him to decorate their classroom blackboards at Thanksgiving and Christmas.〔
At age 10 George decided to become an athlete, and trained himself to become a popular baseball and basketball player. He became good enough at both sports to play semipro ball for years afterward.〔 During his senior year a baseball scout from the Indianapolis team made him an offer. He declined, opting to enroll at The Ohio State University (1901–1904). There he played for the baseball and basketball teams, and provided illustrations for the ''Makio'', the school's student yearbook. He was encouraged to become a professional baseball player,〔.〕 and he worked as a commercial illustrator while a student and continued to accept magazine assignments throughout his life. Despite these opportunities in athletics and commercial art, Bellows desired success as a painter.〔His pragmatic father strongly urged Bellows to abandon his painting dreams and become a builder, as his father was - hadn't the father built the very house they lived in?〕 He left Ohio State in 1904 just before he was to graduate and moved to New York City to study art.〔
Bellows was soon a student of Robert Henri, 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 Henri's "The Eight" and 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.〔.〕
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