Up the Hudson

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

Date:
1908
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
H. 35-7/8, W. 48-1/8 inches (91.1 x 122.2 cm)
Classification:
Paintings
Credit Line:
Gift of Hugo Reisinger, 1911
Accession Number:
11.17
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Signature: Signed (lower right): Geo. Bellows

  • Provenance

    Hugo Reisinger, New York (in 1911)

  • Exhibition History

    New York, NY: National Academy of Design, ¦Winter Exhibition¦, 12 December 1908 - 9 January 1909, no. 65

    Venice, Italy: International Exhibition, as per Record Book, 1909

    New York, New York: City Club, as per Record Book, 1910

    Detroit, Michigan: Detroit Museum of Art, ¦Circuit Exhibition of Contemporary Art of the National Arts Club¦, 11 February - 10 March, 1911, no. 2

    New York: National Academy of Design. Our heritage, 1942, no. 245.

    New York: M.M.A. ¦20th century painters; a special exhibition of oils, watercolors and drawings selected from the collections of American art in the Metropolitan Museum¦, 1950, p. 3 (checklist entry).

    Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art. ¦George Bellows, a retrospective exhibition¦, Jan. 19 - Feb. 24, 1957, no. 7 (painted in New York, April, 1908)

    Columbus, Ohio: Columbus Museum of Art, ¦Paintings by George Bellows¦, 21 March - 21 April 1957, no. 5

    New York: M.M.A. ¦Three centuries of American Painting¦, 1965 [checklist arranged alphabetically].

    Leningrad: The Hermitage, 1975; Moscow: The Pushkin Museum, 1975. ¦100 Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum.¦

    Moscow: The Pushkin Museum, Dec. 15 - Feb. 15, 1978; Leningrad: Hermitage Museum, Mar. 15 - May 15, 1978; Minsk: Palace of Art, Jun. 15 - Aug. 15, 1978. ¦REPRESENTATIONS OF AMERICA.¦ [no catalogue]

    Columbus, Ohio: Columbus Museum of Art, ¦George Wesley Bellows: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints¦, 1 April - 8 May 1979, no. 10

    Macon, Georgia: The Museum of Arts and Sciences. ¦George Bellows: The Personal Side.¦ Mar. 16 - May 6, 1984. fig. 24, pg. 38.

    New York: Nassau County Museum of Art, Nov. 10, 1991-Feb. 9, 1992. ¦Landscape of America: The Hudson River School to Abstract Expressionism¦, by Constance Schwartz. pg.39.

    West Palm Beach, Florida: Norton Museum of Art, ¦George Bellows: Love of Winter¦, 6 December 1997 - 8 February 1998, no. 3, at Norton and Newark only

  • References

    George Wesley Bellows: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, by The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, 1979. pg. 21, pl. 10 (illus.)

    M.M.A. American painting in the Twentieth century, by Henry Geldzahler [c1965], p. 38f. (ill. as painted in 1908; discussed), p. 209 (short biography of the artist), p. 228 (bibliography on the artist).

    Young, Mahonri Sharp. The Paintings of George Bellows, New York [1973], p. 38 (ill. and discussed).

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