George Wesley Bellows (1882 ndash; 1925) was an American realist painter; known for his bold depictions of urban life in New York City. In addition to painting; Bellows made significant contributions to lithography; helping to expand the use of the medium as a fine art in the U.S. Bellows also illustrated numerous books in his later career; including several by H.G. Wells.Bellows taught at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1919. In 1920; he began to spend nearly half of each year in Woodstock; New York; where he built a home for his family. He died on January 8; 1925 in New York City; of peritonitis; after failing to tend to a ruptured appendix. He was survived by his wife; Emma Story Bellows (married 1910); and daughters Anne and Jean. Bellows is buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
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