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Study for "Evening Group"
ca. 191417 11/16 x 21 3/16 in. (44.9 x 53.8 cm)
George Bellows
United States (Columbus, OH, 1882 - 1925, New York, NY)
Object Type:
Drawing
Medium and Support:
Conté crayon and graphite on tracing paper
Credit Line:
Bennett Fund
Accession Number:
1993.23
Location: Not currently on view
George Bellows was a remarkable painter who studied, taught, and lived in New York City. There, he often associated with members of the group of artists known as The Eight, led by Robert Henri. In 1911, accompanied by Henri, George Bellows made the first of several trips to Monhegan Island off the coast of Maine. On his last visit, in 1914, he was accompanied by his wife and daughter Anne, who are the two figures on the left of this drawing. The figures on the right are young neighbors, but the central figure has not yet been identified. While this drawing has an anecdotal quality in its depiction of friends and family, the artist's interest in composition, or the arrangement of forms, can also be seen in the heavily-drawn diagonal lines and the diamond grid in the paper that he used.
Bellows used this drawing as a preliminary study for a similar painting that is owned by the Gallery, which underwent technical analysis at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center to determine what changes the artist may have made to the painting before his death in 1925.
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Bellows used this drawing as a preliminary study for a similar painting that is owned by the Gallery, which underwent technical analysis at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center to determine what changes the artist may have made to the painting before his death in 1925.
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Marks
Inscription, lower left: Bellows / J.B.B
Provenance
H. V. Allison & Co., Inc., New York, NY; Christie's, New York, NY; purchased by the Gallery in 1993
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See the finished painting for which this drawing was preparatory: Evening Group, 47.13
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Exhibition List
This object was included in the following exhibitions:
- The Allure of the Maine Coast: Robert Henri and his Circle, 1903-1918 6/29/1995 - 10/15/1995
- Thinking on Paper: Preparatory Drawings from the MAG Collection Memorial Art Gallery 11/9/2007 - 3/2/2008
Bibliography
This object has the following bibliographic references:
- Article Author: Netsky, Ron. Article Title: George Bellows: Evening Group, 1914; Autumn Brook, 1922. Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Marjorie B. Searl, ed. Seeing America: painting and sculpture from the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2006. Page Number: 171, 173
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Evening Group
1947.13
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Evening Group: Learning to Look/Looking to Learn
Questions to use to focus students' observation skills, Social Studies, ELA and Art components.