George Wesley Bellows (1882-1925), Rock Ridge Farm

George Wesley Bellows (1882-1925)
Rock Ridge Farm
signed 'Geo Bellows' (lower left)--signed again and inscribed with title (on the stretcher)
oil on canvas
16½ x 24 in. (41.9 x 61 cm.)
Painted in 1919.

The artist.
Estate of the above, 1925.
Emma S. Bellows, by descent.
H.V. Allison & Co., Inc., New York.
William W. Hoffman, New York, 1957.
H.V. Allison & Co., Inc., New York.
Gian Campanile, Chicago, Illinois, 1968.
Bernard Danenberg Galleries, Inc., New York.
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, New York, 17 April 1975, lot 90.
Spanierman Gallery, LLC, New York.
R.H. Love Galleries, Inc., Chicago, Illinois.
Acquired by the late owner from the above, circa 1990s.

Artist’s Record Book B, p. 188.

M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, 1920.
H.V. Allison & Co., Inc., George Bellows, New York, May 1-31, 1957, no. 5.
New York, Gallery of Modern Art, George Bellows, March-May 1966, no. 50.
Newport, Rhode Island, Newport Art Association, 1966.

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Lot Essay

To be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the paintings of George Bellows being prepared by Glenn C. Peck. An online version of the catalogue is available at www.hvallison.com.
The present work was painted at Rock Ridge Farm in Middletown, Rhode Island in September 1919. George Bellows and his family spent the summers of 1918-19 in Middletown, where Bellows painted the bucolic landscape with bold and dynamic colors. Charles H. Morgan writes of Bellows' second year in Rhode Island, "Middletown had not changed during the past eight months, but George saw it with new eyes. The year before he had been entirely absorbed by the war. Now he looked around him and relished everything in sight." (George Bellows: Painter of America, New York, 1965, p. 225)