tury. Bellows was working on a canvas a fewof the details of which still puzzled him. Heis painstaking, deliberate, exact. He treatsbis subject as if it were a geometrical prob-lem. The canvas in question is a picture ofan old lady in her wedding gown—a colonialdress of heavy white silk—set off by… … Courtesy Knocdlcr GalleriesSHIPBUILDERS considered it the most beautiful thing in thepicture. George Bellows has a mannerof sweeping away subtle interpretations, ofclearing the atmosphere for a pronouncement.And with such he is amazing. The canvasof the American lady in her colonial weddinggown…
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