George Wesley Bellows
American, 1882-1925
Love of Winter, 1914
Oil on canvas
81.6 x 101.6 cm (32 1/2 x 40 1/2 in.)
Signed, lower right: "Geo Bellows"
Friends of American Art Collection, 1914.1018
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by George Bellows, Dec. 10, 1914–Jan. 3, 1915, cat. 19.
Milwaukee Art Institute, An Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art, Mar. 1–29, 1925, cat. 4.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 431.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 497.
Art Institute of Chicago, George Bellows Paintings, Drawings and Prints, Jan. 23–Mar. 10, 1946, cat. 23.
Milwaukee, Chapman Memorial Library, A Century of Landscape Painting by American Artists, 1851–1951, Feb. 13–Mar. 23, 1951, cat. 14.
Wheaton, Ill., Wheaton College, Exhibition, Apr. 3–June 12, 1951, no cat.
Vancouver Art Gallery, Two Hundred Years of American Painting, Mar. 8–Apr. 3, 1955, pl. 41.
Normal, Illinois State University Student Union Building, One Hundred Years of Painting, 1857–1957, Mar. 17–Apr. 5, 1957, cat. 3.
West Palm Beach, Norton Museum of Art, George Bellows: Love of Winter, Dec. 6, 1997–Jan. 11, 1998, cat. 25; traveled to Newark Museum, Mar. 7–May 31, 1998, and Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, July 10–Sept. 13, 1998.
Publication History
“Acquisitions,” Friends of American Art Fifth Year Book, 1914–1915 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1915), pp. 22, 34 (ill.).
Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 9 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1915), p. 25 (ill.).
“Catalogue of Artists and Acquisitions,” Friends of American Art Sixth Year Book, 1916–1918 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1918), p. 9.
“Friends of American Art Announcement” (Art Institute of Chicago, 1919), ill.
The Art Institute of Chicago Handbook of Paintings and Drawings (Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), p. 39.
A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), p. 142.
John Shapley, ed., “George Wesley Bellows—Painter and Graver,” Index of Twentieth Century Artists (1934), p. 90.
Peyton Boswell, Jr., George Bellows (Crown Publishers, 1942), p. 63 (ill.).
Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 22.
“The Beauty of America in Great American Art,” Country Beautiful (1965), pp. 118–19 (ill.).
Charles H. Morgan, George Bellows, Painter of America (New York, Reynal, 1965), pp. 177, 195.
Donald Braider, George Bellows and the Ashcan School of Painting (Doubleday, 1971), p. 92.
Judith A. Barter et al, American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 342-344, no. 186.
Ownership History
The artist, 1914; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1914.