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Title:The Red Vine, Matinicus Island, Maine
Artist:George Bellows (American, Columbus, Ohio 1882–1925 New York)
Date:1916
Medium:Oil on lumbercore 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
Object Number:54.196.3
Inscription: Signed (lower left by Emma Story Bellows): Geo Bellows / ESB
the artist (from 1916; sold for $600 to Brandegee); Frank B. Brandegee, New London, Conn.; [Marie Sterner Gallery, New York, until 1927; sold on January 26, 1927, for $2,000, to Dale]; Chester Dale, New York (1927–54; his gift to MMA)
New York. Milch Art Gallery. "George Bellows," March 13–24, 1918, no. 20 (as "The Red Vine").
Cleveland Museum of Art. "Fifth Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting," June 11–July 13, 1925, no catalogue (as "The Clothes Line").
New York. Marie Sterner Gallery. "Modern Painters," January 10–22, 1927, no catalogue.
New York. Union League Club. "An Exhibition of American Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection," January 13–28, 1937, no. 51 (as "The Red Vine").
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection," October 10, 1943–unknown date, unnumbered cat. (as "The Red Vine," c. 1923).
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. "George Bellows: A Retrospective Exhibition," January 19–February 24, 1957, no. 29 (as "The Red Vine," September 1916).
Columbus, Oh. Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts. "Paintings by George Bellows," March 21–April 21, 1957, no. 35 (as "The Red Vine").
Southampton, N. Y. Parrish Art Museum. "Twentieth Century American Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 25–December 31, 1977, no. 5 (as "The Red Vine").
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. "La Peinture Américaine au 20e Siècle de la Collection du Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 28–August 23, 1978, no. 5 (as "La Vigne Rouge").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "American Landscape Painting," April 4–August 13, 1989, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "14 Americans," July 16, 1990–January 2, 1991, no catalogue.
Tulsa, Okla. Philbrook Museum of Art. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 14–June 9, 1991, no. 18 (as "The Red Vine").
Miami. Center for the Fine Arts. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 29–August 24, 1991, no. 18.
Omaha. Joslyn Art Museum. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 14–November 10, 1991, no. 18.
Tampa Museum of Art. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," December 14, 1991–February 8, 1992, no. 18.
Greenville, S. C. Greenville County Museum of Art. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," March 17–May 10, 1992, no. 18.
Madison, Wisc. Madison Art Center. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 6–August 2, 1992, no. 18.
Grand Rapids, Mich. Grand Rapids Art Museum. "The Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 11–November 8, 1992, no. 18.
Albany. New York State Museum. "20th Century American Landscapes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 31–October 14, 2001, not in brochure.
W[illiam]. M. M[illiken]. "The Fifth Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 12 (June 1925), p. 113.
Emma S. Bellows. The Paintings of George Bellows. New York, 1929, pl. 60, calls it "The Red Vine" and lists it in the Dale Collection, New York.
Peyton Boswell, Jr. George Bellows. New York, 1942, ill. p. 87.
George Bellows: A Retrospective Exhibition. Exh. cat., Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1957, p. 18, no. 29, ill. p. 65.
Henry Geldzahler. American Painting in the Twentieth Century. New York, 1965, pp. 39–40, ill.
Helen A. Harrison inTwentieth Century American Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Parrish Art Museum. Southampton, N. Y., 1977, p. 14, no. 5, ill., notes that this work was painted in Camden, Maine where Bellows and his family spent the summer of 1916.
Helen A. Harrison inLa Peinture Américaine au 20e Siècle de la Collection du Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. Brussels, 1978, unpaginated, no. 5, ill., reprints Ref. Harrison 1977.
Lowery Stokes Sims inThe Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., American Federation of Arts. New York, 1991, pp. 63–65, no. 18, ill. (color).
Robert Rosenblum inThe Landscape in Twentieth-Century American Art: Selections from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., American Federation of Arts. New York, 1991, p. 11.
Michael Quick inThe Paintings of George Bellows. Exh. cat., Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Tex. New York, 1992, p. 61, fig. 56, calls it "The Red Vine".
Kimberly A. Jones in Kimberly A. Jones and Maygene Daniels. The Chester Dale Collection. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2009, pp. 23, 161 n. 133.
Sarah Cash inGeorge Bellows. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Washington, D.C., 2012, p. 166, colorpl. 72.
Glenn C. Peck. George Bellows' Catalogue Raisonné. Online resource [hvallison.com], [2012], unnumbered, ill. (color).
George Bellows (American, Columbus, Ohio 1882–1925 New York)
1917
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