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An American Pulse:
Chronology of George Bellows
- 1882 Born to George Bellows, Sr., and Anna Smith Bellows, his second wife, in
Columbus, Ohio on 12 August
- 1897-1901 Attends Central High in Columbus
Plays baseball and basketball
Decides to become an artist
- 1901-4 Attends Ohio State University
Publishes cartoons in the Ohio State, Makio and the Kenyon College yearbook
Establishes friendship with Joseph Taylor
Joins Beta Theta Pi fraternity
Plays basketball for Ohio State and is scouted by professional baseball teams as a
shortstop
- 1904 Leaves Ohio States at end of junior year to go to New York
Enrolls in the New York School of Art
Studies with Robert Henri
Lives at the YMCA
Plays semi-pro baseball
- 1905 Meets Emma Story, of Upper Montclair, N.J., a fellow student
Moves to 352 West 58th St. with Ed Keefe, another student
Becomes a member of Henri's "Tuesday Evening" salons
- 1906 Tries etching for the first time
Paints River Rats
Moves to the Lincoln Arcade Building
- 1907 Paints Pennsylvania Excavation, Club Night
Does drawings Dance in a Madhouse, Dogs, Early Morning (A New York Street), and Struggles with a Drunk
- 1908 North River wins Hallgarten Prize at National Academy show
Teaches at the University of Virginia in the summer
Copies Daumier's Rue Transnonain
Rooms with Eugene O'Neill
- 1909 Elected associate member of the National Academy of Design
Sells North River to the Pennsylvania Academy and Forty-two Kids to the Carnegie Institute
Paints Lone Tenement, Both Members of This Club, and A Stag at Sharkey's
- 1910 Teaches life drawing class at Art Students League
Marries Emma Story; honeymoons at Montauk, Long Island
- 1911 First one-person show at Madison Gallery, New York
Paints Monhegan landscapes, including Island in the Sea
Daughter Anne born in September
- 1912 First journal illustrations for The Delineator, Everybody's Magazine,
Collier's, American, and Harper's Weekly
- 1913 Helps hang the Armory Show
Contributes first drawings to The Masses
Becomes a National Academician
Contributes drawings to Harper's Weekly and American
Experiments with monotypes
Paints Cliffdwellers
His father dies in March
Buy the catalogue An American Pulse: The
Lithographs of George Wesley Bellows.
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