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| GEORGE BELLOWS |
 His productive years as a painter almost spanned the first quarter of the twentieth century, during which he created a body of work that expressed some, but not all, of the energies of that tumultuous period. His art belongs firmly in the mainstream of the American realist tradition, yet the disruptions of modernism left him unsettled and out of sync with the original forces of the new century. His career, unexpectedly cut short by appendicitis at age forty-two, stand framed by the towering realist legacies of Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer at the end of the nineteenth century and then by Edward Hooper's austere clarities in the twentieth.Bellow's on Henri's teachings about art: "The only true modern movement is the frank expression of self. Those who express even a little of themselves never become old fashioned. But few are capable of holding themselves in a state of listening to their own song." |
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