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George Wesley Bellows

Nude Boy: Hand over Head, study for Riverfront No. 1, 1915

Description

Maker

  • George Wesley Bellows, 1882-1925, American

Title

Nude Boy: Hand over Head, study for Riverfront No. 1

Year

1915

Medium

Crayon on paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • charcoal

Supports

  • Buff colored smooth medium weight wove paper

Dimensions

27.9 x 22.7 cm (11 x 8 7/8 inches) (sheet)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Original--Verso:LL corner:Geo Bellows E.S.B.; LR corner:B 355 No

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Anonymous gift

Object Number

1992.001.15

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Changing Poses

November 12, 2010 - June 6, 2011

In this forceful sketch, heavy black parallel lines reinforce the rough and ready character of the subject, a young lower-class boy from New York City. Like other
members of the so-called “Ashcan School,” George Bellows turned his artistic attention away from refined subject matter to examine the harsh social realities of early 20th-century urban life. He found models among the street urchins of the Lower East Side, mostly immigrant children whose dirty appearance, foreign manners, and associations with petty crime offended polite museum-going audiences. Through drawings such as this, Bellows recorded their malnourished bodies and uncomfortable gestures, ultimately integrating the figures into large and complex paintings.

George Bellows, The Eight, and the American Scene

July 7 - September 2, 1995

American Prints and Drawings from a Private Collection

January 17 - March 29, 1992

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