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Exhibition Available 2009
The Powerful Hand of George Bellows
Drawings from the Boston Public Library
The Trust for Museum Exhibitions is privileged to offer for exhibition an incomparable collection of drawings by the modern American master George Bellows. The Boston Public Library, which contains nearly 50 masterpieces by one of America's greatest draftsmen, was last exhibited in the 1950s and has never been presented in its entirety. Demonstrating the artist's technical and aesthetic versatility, these drawings range in subject from popular sporting events and powerful social commentary, to intimate figure studies and family portraits.
A general lack of scholarly attention to the artist's drawings might suggest that the medium was, for Bellows, secondary. As the Wiggin Collection demonstrates repeatedly, Bellows created large, highly finished drawings as ends in themselves, as well as developing sketches along the way to the creation of major works in other media.
This groundbreaking exhibition will be accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue of the Wiggin Collection that will feature an important group of essays examining Bellows' status as a great draftsman, his place among American realist artists and writers, the relationship of these powerful works to his better known paintings and prints, and the history of the Wiggin gift itself.
Itinerary
The Frick Art Museum - Pittsburgh, PA
April 21 - June 17, 2007
Venue 1
The Columbus Museum of Art - Columbus, OH
July 12 - September 23, 2007
Venue 2
The Mennello Museum of American Art - Orlando, FL
October 11 - December 23, 2007
Venue 3
Milwaukee Art Museum - Milwaukee, WI
January 10 - March 23, 2008
Venue 4
Portland Museum of Art - Portland, ME
April 10 - June 1, 2008
Venue 5
San Antonio Museum of Art - San Antonio, TX
June 21 - August 31, 2008
Venue 6
Boston Public Library - Boston, MA
September 22 - December 1, 2008
Venue 7
Available
January 15 - March 14, 2009
Venue 8
George Bellows
The White Hope
1921
lithograph