News: "The Art of Boxing" Runs Through Oct. 8 at the National Gallery of Art

 Washington, D.C. (Sept. 27, 2012) - When George Bellows died at the age of 42 in 1925, he was hailed as one of the greatest artists America had yet produced. The first comprehensive exhibition of his career in more than three decades runs through Oct. 8, 2012 at the National Gallery of Art. George Bellows includes some 130 paintings, drawings, and lithographs of tenement children, boxers, and the urban landscape of New York, as well as Maine seascapes, sports images, World War I subjects, family portraits, and Woodstock, NY, scenes.

An enthusiastic athlete himself, Bellows created paintings, drawings, and prints not only of boxing subjects but also of baseball, football, tennis, basketball, and polo. Born in Columbus, Ohio, he attended Central High School where he played basketball and baseball. At Ohio State, Bellows played basketball and baseball, as well as semipro baseball during the summer in Ohio, and later in Brooklyn, N.Y.