“Bang! Smash! Crack!”: Bellows and Early Film

Nancy Mowll Mathews, the Eugénie Prendergast Senior Curator of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Art, Emerita, at Williams College Museum of Art, discusses the relationship between George Bellows and early film. With the growth of early film and it’s presentation as an art form, artists began to strive to create living portraits and dynamic action scenes.

This lecture was presented as part of the Sunday at the Met program on George Bellows, which took place on January 27, 2013. The exhibition George Bellows is on view November 15, 2012 – February 18, 2013 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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This program was made possible by The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation for the Arts.

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