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About the book >.>.> John Wilmerding Professor of American Art at Princeton University introduces Bellows in the context of other early twentieth-century artists and the broader culture in which they worked. Michael Quick Curator of American Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art surveys the changes of technique and theory that marked Bellows’s painting career. Marianne Doezema Programs Officer Museums at the National Endowment for the Humanities exam- ines the influence of modern life on Bellows’s subject matter and style. Franklin Kelly Curator of American and British Painting at the National Gallery of Art Washington considers how Bellows’s seascapes and paintings of coastal Maine reflect the artist’s con- cerns between 1910 and 1923. Jane Myers Associate Curator at the Amon Carter Museum Fort Worth Texas surveys his portraiture for insights into the broad themes of Bellows’s art. Illustrated with over two hundred reproduc tions including seventy-six in full color George Bellows offers new insights into Bellows’s finest works on canvas and into the bold and thoughtful artist who created them. It will delight the general reader as well as art historians and scholars interested in American art and culture. A full index adds to the reference value of this volume. (MP)