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This essay collection, by scholars from both the United States and Europe, carefully examines the artwork of one of the most important 20th-century American painters and printmakers, George Bellows. It builds on the Columbus Museum of Art's 2013 exhibition, George Bellows and the American Experience, and the National Gallery of Art's 2012 exhibition, George Bellows. The volume offers innovative research that explores his oeuvre from multiple viewpoints. The essays challenge widely held perceptions of Bellows, such as his Americanness, hyper-masculinity, patronage, response to the World War I, and his relationship to fellow artist Edward Hopper. This is an essential collection for any serious study on Bellows' work.

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M. Melissa Wolfe is the Curator of American Art and head of the American Department at the Saint Louis Art Museum. She was formerly Curator of American Art at the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio. She has organized a wide variety of exhibitions, including A Dangerous Woman: Subversion and Surrealism in the Art of Honoré Sharrer, George Bellows and the American Experience, and George Tooker: A Retrospective. Dr. Wolfe has published on numerous topics, including ""Honoré Sharrer's Cold War Reception"" for American Women Artists, 1935-1970: Gender, Culture, and Politics (Routledge, 2016); ""Family Life: Portraiture, 1914–1923"" for George Bellows (National Gallery of Art, 2012); ""Calling the Shots: Photography and Painting in the American West"" for Shared Intelligence: Painting and Photography in American Art, (University of California Press, 2011); and ""Joe Jones. Worker-Artist"" for Joe Jones: Radical Painter of the American Scene (Saint Louis Art Museum, 2010).

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