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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Love of Winter
    George Bellows. Love of Winter, 1914. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001470

    Love of Winter

    by George Bellows

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed, lower right: "Geo Bellows"

    Provenance

    The artist, New York; sold to the Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 1914; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1914.

    Exhibition history

    Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by George Bellows, Dec. 10, 1914–Jan. 3, 1915, cat. 19. Milwaukee Art Institute, An Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art, Mar. 1–29, 1925, cat. 4. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23–Oct. 31, 1933, cat. 431. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Oct. 31, 1934, cat. 497. Art Institute of Chicago, George Bellows Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Jan. 23–Mar. 10, 1946, cat. 23. Milwaukee–Downer College, Wisconsin, A Century of Landscape Painting by American Artists, 1851–1951, Feb. 13–Mar. 23, 1951, cat. no. 14. Illinois, Wheaton College, Exhibition, Apr. 3–June 12, 1951, no cat. Vancouver Art Gallery, Two Hundred Years of American Painting, Mar. 8–Apr. 3, 1955, pl. 41. WI, Madison Art Association, Exhibition of Traditional Paintings from the Art Institute, Mar. 1956, no cat. Normal, Illinois State University Student Union Building, One Hundred Years of Painting, 1857–1957, Mar. 17–Apr. 5, 1957, cat. 3. West Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Museum of Art, George Bellows: Love of Winter, Dec. 6, 1997–Feb. 8, 1998; Newark Museum, Mar. 7–May 31, 1998; Columbus Museum of Art, July 10–Sept. 13, 1998. Washington DC, National Gallery of Art, George Bellows, June 10–Oct. 8, 2012; Metropolitan Museum of Art. Nov. 13, 2012–Feb. 18, 2013; London, Royal Academy of Arts, Mar. 16–June 9, 2013.

    Publications

    “Acquisitions,” Friends of American Art Fifth Year Book, 1914–1915 (1915), 22, 34 (ill.). “Friends of American Art,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 9, no. 1 (Jan. 1, 1915): 11–12, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4102690. “Catalogue of Artists and Acquisitions,” Friends of American Art Sixth Year Book, 1916–1918 (1918), 9. Friends of American Art Announcement (Art Institute of Chicago, 1919), ill. The Art Institute of Chicago Handbook of Paintings and Drawings (Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), 39. Milwaukee Art Institute, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art, exh. cat. (Milwaukee Art Institute, 1925), n.p., cat. 4 (ill.). A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), 142. John Shapley, ed., “George Wesley Bellows—Painter and Graver,” Index of Twentieth Century Artists (1934), 90. Peyton Boswell, Jr., George Bellows (Crown Publishers, 1942), 63 (ill.). Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 22. “The Beauty of America in Great American Art,” Country Beautiful (1965), 118–19 (ill.). Charles H. Morgan, George Bellows, Painter of America (Reynal, 1965), 177, 195. Donald Braider, George Bellows and the Ashcan School of Painting (Doubleday, 1971), 92. Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 342–344, no. 186. Judith A. Barter, et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 83. Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the Collection (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2017), 92.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    George Wesley Bellows (American, 1882–1925)
    Date
    1914
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    81.6 × 101.6 cm (32 1/2 × 40 1/2 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    oil on canvas
    Style
    Impressionism
    Place
    New York
    Department
    Arts of the Americas
    Credit line
    Friends of American Art Collection
    Accession no.
    1914.1018

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