# Nude with Red Hair, in Early modernism

George Bellows painted this in 1920, aged 38. It is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Our note:

> A woman with copper-red hair sits partly wrapped in a black cloth, one arm across her chest and a strand of amber beads at her neck, her head turned to look away to the right.

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## The work

- Date: 1920
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: overall: 110.9 x 86.5 cm (43 11/16 x 34 1/16 in.) framed: 138.4 x 113 x 7.6 cm (54 1/2 x 44 1/2 x 3 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1963.10.84
- 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=751) (6 works)
- [More paintings of the 20th century](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/painting-20?hang=751) (75 works)
- [20th-century United States](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/20-united-states?hang=751) (124 works)

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