An American Pulse:
Urban Life

• Bathing Beach
• Hungry Dogs
• River-Front
• Business-Men's Bath
• In the Park, Dark
• The Drunk
• Shower-Bath, (First State)
• The Hold Up
• Business-Men's Class
• Splinter Beach
• The Street

George Bellows was associated with a group of artists known as the Ashcan School. These artists rebelled against the genteel subjects of the prevailing academic style in favor of ordinary street scenes and themes that reflected the social realities of urban America. The artists of the Ash Can School used their art to question what they perceived to be a general complacency affecting the American public.

In addition to the social aspect of their work, these artists attempted to capture the everyday scenes taking place on the city streets. The urban pastimes of New Yorkers was a theme favored by Bellows, and we often find outdoor genre scenes as subject matter for his lithographs.

Explore other sections:

• The Artist as Spectator
• Nudes
• Studies in Belief
• Boxing
• Portraits
• Illustration Series
• Reminiscences from Youth
• The War Series

Buy the catalogue An American Pulse: The Lithographs of George Wesley Bellows.

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