# Blue Morning, in The American Gilded Age

George Bellows painted this in 1909, aged 27. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> Workmen hammer and haul behind a wooden fence beneath the iron column of an elevated railway, while beyond them the ground drops into a vast excavation and the pale blue façade of a building rises in the haze.

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## The work

- Date: 1909
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 86.3 x 111.7 cm (34 x 44 in.) framed: 102.9 x 135.6 x 6 cm (40 1/2 x 53 3/8 x 2 3/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1963.10.82
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[George Bellows](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/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.

6 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [More by George Bellows](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/george-bellows?hang=750) (6 works)
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