Word: bellowses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Peyton Boswell Jr., 45, editor and publisher of the twice-monthly Art Digest, biographer of Painters Henry Varnum Poor and George Bellows; of a heart ailment; in Malverne, N.Y.
Wide & Windy. The next generation of reportorial artists, concentrating on city life and emphasizing its seamy side, never approached the consistent quality of their four great predecessors. But they had long outlived their early scornful nickname: the "ashcan school." Now the work of such men as Henri, Luks, Glackens and...
¶ Artist Bellows (1882-1925) painted the Dempsey-Firpo fight the year after Dempsey won it (in the second round). Stag at Sharkey's was one of the three early fight pictures which made Bellows famous.-ED.
. . . You refer to George Bellows' classic picture of "Firpo knocking Dempsey through the ropes" [TIME. May 22]. Bellows died in 1925, and I doubt he painted the episode referred to. His classic fight picture, unless my memory deceives me, was titled Stag at Sharkey's. Sharkey's...
Chunky, spectacled Frank Bielaski, an ex-Wall Street broker turned Government secret agent, had handled many cases for OSS during the war. One midnight, tracing down the document quoted in Amerasia, Bielaski and four aides let themselves into a dark, empty building at 225 Fifth Avenue. They took an elevator...