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Rolling Breakers
191320th century
38 cm x 50 cm (14 15/16 in. x 19 11/16 in.)
George Wesley Bellows (Columbus, Ohio, 1882 - 1925, New York, New York) Primary
Object Type:
painting
Artist Nationality:
North America, American
Medium and Support:
Oil on panel
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Michener Acquisitions Fund, 1969
Accession Number:
P1969.8.1
Object Description:
Vertical patches of blue-green and white repeat, emphasizing the eternal crashing of waves on a rocky shoreline. Rolling Breakers is one of 117 pictures George Bellows painted during a summer spent on Monhegan Island, Maine. While they are reminiscent of Winslow Homer’s celebrated images of Maine, Bellows’ seascapes are distinguished by their thick, muscular paint surfaces and their unique manipulation of perspective, which places the viewer virtually in the breaking surf.
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