The Red Vine, Matinicus Island, Maine

George Bellows  (American, Columbus, Ohio 1882–1925 New York)

Date:
1916
Medium:
Oil on panel
Dimensions:
22 x 28 1/4 in. (55.9 x 71.8 cm)
Classification:
Paintings
Credit Line:
Gift of The Chester Dale Collection, 1954
Accession Number:
54.196.3
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Signature: Signed (lower left by Emma Story Bellows): Geo Bellows/ESB

  • Provenance

    Frank B. Brandegee, New London, Conn. (1919); Chester Dale, New York

  • Exhibition History

    New York: The Milch Galleries, ¦George Bellows¦, 13 March - 24 March 1918, no. 20.

    Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, ¦George Bellows: A Retrospective Exhibtiion¦, 1 January - 24 February 1957, no. 29.

    Columbus, Ohio: Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, ¦Paintings by George Bellows¦, 21 March - 21 April 1957, no. 35.

    Southampton, New York: The Parrish Art Museum. ¦Twentieth Century American Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art¦. September 25 - December 31, 1977. np. 5 (illus. pg. 14)

    Brussels, Belgium: Palais des Beaux-Arts. ¦La peinture Américaine au 20e siècle de la collection du Metropolitan Museum of Art¦, June 28-August 23, 1978, no. 5 discussed and illustrated.

    Albany, New York: New York State Museum, May 29 - November 4, 2001. ¦Twentieth-Century American Landscape from The Metropolitan Museum of Art¦.

  • References

    Bellows, George. The paintings of George Bellows comp. by Emma S. Bellows, 1929, no. 60 (given 1916 date, from the Dale Collection, N.Y.), pl. 60 (ill.)

    Boswell, Peyton, Jr.. George Bellows, 1942, p. 87 (ill., given 1916 date, from the Chester Dale Collection).

    M.M.A. American painting in the Twentieth century, by Henry Geldzahler [c1965], p. 39-40 (ill., discussed), p. 209 (short biography of the artist), p. 228 (bibliography on the artist).

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