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9 March 2011

The Ashcan Painters: beauty and brutality in American art

"Pictures from life" at the National Gallery.

By Anna Winter

George Bellows (1882-1925) was one of the most influential American painters of the early 20th century and yet his work is not widely known in the UK. The National Gallery’s new exhibition An American Experiment: George Bellows and the Ashcan Painters introduces this important artist and his peers, ahead of a major exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2013.

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