# George Bellows

American, 1882–1925

Bellows left Ohio State University to study in New York with Robert Henri and became the most celebrated of the younger realists around him. He painted the city with vigorous brushwork: tenement children, the excavation for Pennsylvania Station, Hudson River docks and, most famously, illegal prize fights such as Stag at Sharkey’s. He took up lithography in 1916 and became one of its leading American practitioners. He died at forty-two of a ruptured appendix.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

6 works in the collection.

- [Stag at Sharkey's](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/stag-at-sharkey-s-cma-92937), George Bellows, 1909. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.
- [Blue Morning](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/blue-morning-nga-46557), George Bellows, 1909. Courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington.
- [The Lone Tenement](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/the-lone-tenement-nga-46558), George Bellows, 1909. Courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington.
- [Nude with Red Hair](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/nude-with-red-hair-nga-46559), George Bellows, 1920. Courtesy of National Gallery of Art, Washington.
- [Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Wase](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/mr-and-mrs-phillip-wase-si-saam-1967-39-1), George Bellows, 1924. Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution.
- [Business Men's Class](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/business-men-s-class-cma-115925), George Bellows, 1916. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art.