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George Wesley Bellows

Coming Storm, 1913

Description

Maker

  • George Wesley Bellows, 1882-1925, American

Title

Coming Storm

Year

1913

Medium

Oil on panel

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • oil paint

Supports

  • panel

Dimensions

26.7 x 32.4 cm (10 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed on verso:painted by George Bellows

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Museum purchase: gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gilman Angier

Object Number

85.185

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

From the Reserve IV

July 22 - October 2, 1994

Romanticism and Revival

December 4, 1992 - June 26, 1993

The Ocean

August 17 - October 7, 1990

Bellows painted Coming Storm while on Monhegan Island, Maine during the summer of 1913. This panel is one of a series of paintings that depict the action of the waves on the rocky Maine coast in bold strokes of paint applied with the brush and with the palette knife.

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