Inscription
lower right: Geo Bellows.
Provenance
The artist [1882-1925]; by inheritance to his wife, Emma S. Bellows [1884-1959]; her estate; purchased July 1961 through (H.V. Allison & Co., New York) by Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1983 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1924
- Special Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, Leon Kroll, Eugene F. Savage, Walter Ufer, Paul Bartlett, Edgar S. Cameron, H. Aimard Oberteuffer, and George Oberteuffer, Art Institute of Chicago, 1924-1925, no. 16, as Venus.
- 1925
- Bellows Exhibition, Durand-Ruel Galleries, February 1925, no. 3, as Nude.
- 1925
- Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, Charles Hopkinson, Eugene Speicer, Boston Art Club, March 1925, no. 3, as Nude.
- 1925
- Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, Charles Hopkinson, Robert Henri, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, April 1925, no. 3, as Nude.
- 1925
- Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, Worcester Art Museum, February-March 1925, no. 11, as Nude.
- 1925
- Memorial Exhibition of the Work of George Bellows, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October-November 1925, no. 59, repro., as Venus.
- 1958
- George Bellows, H.V. Allison & Co., New York, 1958, no. 14.
- 1961
- George Bellows, H.V. Allison & Co., New York, May 1961, no. 15, cover repro.
- 1961
- The Nude in American Painting, Brooklyn Museum, October-November 1961, no. 34.
- 2003
- Leaving for the Country: George Bellows at Woodstock, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, 2003, fig. 47, color plate 32.
- 2012
- George Bellows, National Gallery of Art, Washington; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2012-2013, pl. 148 (shown only in New York).
Bibliography
- 1929
- Bellows, Emma Louise Story. The Paintings of George Bellows. New York, 1929: 138, as Venus.
- 1965
- Morgan, Charles H. George Bellows. Painter of America. New York, 1965: 278.
- 1971
- Braider, Donald. George Bellows and the Ashcan School of Painting. New York, 1971: 140.
- 1992
- American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 32, repro.
- 1992
- Quick, Michael, Jane Myers, Marianne Doezema, and Franklin Kelly. The Paintings of George Bellows. Exh. cat. Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art; Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, 1992-1993. New York, 1992: 87, fig. 88.
- 2009
- Peck, Glenn C. George Bellows' Catalogue Raisonné. H.V. Allison & Co., 2009. Online resource, URL: http://www.hvallison.com. Accessed 16 August 2016.
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