Portraits
In his prints of the early 1920s, George Bellows produced numerous portraits of his family and
friends. By this time, he had become highly skilled in the technical nuances of printmaking,
even making adjustments in the size of the lithographic stone to produce different effects.
Departing from portrayals of group interaction, this series finds Bellows focusing on the
reflective insight of the individual character.
Bellows' portraits include images of his wife Emma, daughters Jean and Anna, his mother Anna Smith
Bellows, as well as renderings of fellow artists Robert Aitken, Eugene Speicher, and Robert
Henri. In addition, Bellows produced prints of Elsie Speicher and Marjorie Henri, the wives of
his close friends. The portraits of his daughters stand out in this series for their
spontaneity of execution and intimate reflective quality.
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Lithographs of George Wesley Bellows.
