George Bellows’ New York

When:
September 1, 2014 @ 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm
2014-09-01T13:00:00+01:00
2014-09-01T13:45:00+01:00
Where:
Sainsbury Wing Theatre
The National Gallery
London WC2N 5DN
UK
Cost:
Free

The early years of the 20th century saw the City of New York undergo an extraordinary spurt of growth and change.

Of the artists who responded to this development, George Bellows stands out for his complex, ambivalent and sometimes sardonic take on the city and its inhabitants.

Following the recent accession of Bellows’ ‘Men of the Docks’, this talk will examine the breadth of Bellows’ reactions to his adopted city and place them in the context of the work of other painters who looked at New York during this lively and transformative moment in its history.
David Peters Corbett

David Peters Corbett is Professor of Art History and American Studies at the University of East Anglia. He has worked on American art of this period, as holder of the Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship and as Terra Senior Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.