San Diego Museum of Art

☰ Open Filter >>

American Art

Showing 19 of 100

Print this page

Additional Images Click an image to view a larger version

Bookmark: https://collection.sdmart.org/objects-1/info/2677

Winter Road

George Wesley Bellows, American, (August 12, 1882–January 8, 1925)

Creation date: 1912

Creation place: United States

Other Information

Type: Oil Painting

Medium and Support: Oil on canvas

Credit Line: Museum purchase with funds from the Gerald and Inez Grant Parker Foundation and the Earle W. Grant Acquisition Fund

Accession Number: 1976.2

Dimensions: 34 in. x 44 in. (86.36 cm x 111.76 cm)

Currently on view

Provenance

Ruxton Love, Jr., New York, New York ( - )

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, New York ( - February 19, 1976)

H.V. Allison & Co., Inc., New York, New York (1955 - )

San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California (February 19, 1976 - )

Label Copy

October 18, 2914
Anita Feldman, Deputy Director of Collections and Exhibitons
George Wesley Bellows
American • 1882–1925
Winter Road
Oil on canvas • 1912
After a career playing semi-professional baseball, George Bellows left Columbus, Ohio, and moved to New York City to pursue art. While he is best known for his social subjects that consistently avoided idealization, Bellows also painted landscapes, most notably the coast of Maine and the New Jersey Palisades. Bellows favored winter scenes and found snow to be particularly intriguing. He once declared, “I must paint the snow at least once a year.” The foreground of this painting emphasizes the fall of light on snow, in contrast to the long shadows.
Museum purchase with funds from the Gerald and Inez Grant Parker Foundation and the Earle W. Grant Acquisition Fund
1976.2
Last Updated: 10/20/2014

Exhibition

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

George Bellows: Love of Winter , 2/1/1995 - 11/1/1995

George Bellows: Love of Winter Norton Museum of Art , 12/6/1997 - 9/13/1998

America: Die Neue Welt in Bildern des 19.Jahrhunderts Österreichische Galerie Belvedere , 3/17/1999 - 6/20/1999

American: Die Neue Welt in Bildern des 19. Jahrhunderts , 3/17/1999 - 6/20/1999

Idol of the Moderns: Pierre-August Renoir and American Painting San Diego Museum of Art , 6/29/2002 - 2/16/2003

Ortra vez Modern and Contemporary The San Diego Museum of Art , 3/30/2013 - 7/14/2013

American: Art of the 20th Century San Diego Museum of Art , 1/18/2014 - 8/26/2014

American Visions: Place and Identity The San Diego Museum of Art , 10/18/2014 - 3/17/2015

Art of the 20th Century , 3/28/2015 - 8/16/2015

American Art The San Diego Museum of Art , 11/26/2016 - 8/15/2021

Bibliography

This object has the following bibliographic references:

Mr. Martin E. Petersen. San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, 1993
Page Number: 150

Stephan Koja, ed. America: Prestel Verlag. Munich, Germany, 1999
Page Number: 188, Figure Number: 142

Stephan Koja. America: Prestel Verlag. Munich, Germany, 1999
Page Number: 289, no. 142

Stephan Koja, ed. America: Prestel Verlag. München, Germany, 1999
Page Number: 188, Figure Number: 142

Stephan Koja. America: Prestel Verlag. München, Germany, 1999
Page Number: 292, no. 142

David F. Setford. George Bellows: Norton Museum of Art. West Palm Beach, Florida, 1997
Page Number: 102, 103, Figure Number: 24

David F. Setford and Nancy Barrow. George Bellows: Norton Museum of Art. West Palm Beach, Florida, 1997
Page Number: 115, Figure Number: 35

Anne E. Dawson. Idol of the Moderns: San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, 2002
Page Number: 72 no. 13, 78, Figure Number: 13

Mr. D. Scott Atkinson. San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego Museum of Art. San Diego, California, 2003
Page Number: 192, Figure Number: 192

Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Christie's. New York, New York, November 29, 2007
Page Number: 45, 46, Figure Number: 3

George Bellows' Men of the Docks Christie's. New York, New York, November 29, 2007
Page Number: 19, Figure Number: 3