Pueblo Tesuque, No. 2
Framed: 45 3/4 × 55 3/4 × 3 inches (116.21 × 141.61 × 7.62 cm)
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Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, Gallery of Fine Arts and Art Association of Columbus, Ohio, January 30–February 13, 1918, no. 22 (as Pueblo).
A Collection of Paintings Selected from the Leading American Exhibitions of the Season, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, N.Y., 1917–1918, July–September 1918, no. 4 (as Pueblo).
Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, M. Knoedler & Co., New York, March 31– April 12, 1919, no. 5 (as Pueblo).
[“Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, Childe Hassam, F. Luis Mora. . . .”], Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., May 12–June 10, 1919, no cat.
Springfield, Ill., July 1919, per Bellows’s record book.
Erie, Pa., August 1919, per Bellows’s record book.
Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, N.A., Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., September 11–October 5, 1919, no. 6 (as Pueblo).
Paintings by George Bellows, Art Institute of Chicago, November 1–December 5, 1919, no. 6 (as Pueblo).
Exhibition of Oil Paintings by George Bellows, N.A., and Mural Paintings and Drawings by Violet Oakley, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, N.Y., December 6, 1919– January 5, 1920, no. 6 (as Pueblo).
George Bellows, H. V. Allison & Company, New York, May 3–28, 1960, no. 7.
Taos and Santa Fe: The Artist’s Environment, 1882–1942, Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, and the Art Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, April 5–November 27, 1963 (traveled), no. 6.
Kansas City Collects: A Selection of Works Privately Owned in the Greater Kansas City Area, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Mo., January 22– February 28, 1965, no. 41 (as Pueblo Tesuque #2).
George Bellows: Paintings, Drawings, Lithographs, Gallery of Modern Art, New York, March 15– May 1, 1966, no. 46 (as Pueblo, Tesuque, II).
A Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977–1987, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., October 14–December 6, 1987, no. 74.
George Bellows: An American Master, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., October 1–November 30, 1991, unnumbered.
Tesuque Pueblo, near Santa Fe, offered Bellows the perfect opportunity to paint the Southwestern scenery and American Indian subjects that were increasingly popular around World War I. Bellows' composition depicts the daily life of the pueblo and includes its white adobe church on the left. A man dressed for the Green Corn dance, an annual rite of renewal prior to the corn harvest, adds an exotic air to the scene as does the highly keyed palette of purple, red-orange, green and blue.
to Emma S. Bellows (widow of the artist);
to estate of Emma S. Bellows;
to (H. V. Allison & Company, New York, 1941–64);
to Julia and Humbert Tinsman, Shawnee Mission, Kans., by 1964;
to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., 1984.
Record Book B, Jean Bellows Booth, 138.
Dedication Exhibit of Southwestern Art Preliminary Catalogue, exh. cat. (Santa Fe: School of American Research and Museum of New Mexico, 1917), unpaginated (as Tesuque Pueblo).
“Paintings of the Southwestern Artists,” Art and Archaeology 7 (January–February 1918), 53, 58 (as Tesuque Pueblo).
Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, exh. cat. (Columbus, Ohio: Champlin Press, 1918), unpaginated (as Pueblo).
A Collection of Paintings Selected from the Leading American Exhibitions of the Season of 1917–1918, exh. cat. (Rochester, N.Y.: Memorial Art Gallery, 1918), 4 (as Pueblo).
“The Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, N.A. at the Albright Art Gallery,” Academy Notes 14 (October–December 1919), 134 (as Pueblo).
“Current Exhibitions,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 13 (December 1919), 139 (as Pueblo).
Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, exh. cat. (New York: M. Knoedler & Co., 1919), unpaginated (as Pueblo).
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings by George Bellows, N.A., exh. cat. (Buffalo, N.Y.: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 1919), unpaginated (as Pueblo).
Paintings by George Bellows, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1919), unpaginated (as Pueblo).
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Oil Paintings by George Bellows, N.A., and Mural Paintings and Drawings by Violet Oakley, exh. cat. (Rochester, N.Y.: Memorial Art Gallery, 1919), 3 (as Pueblo).
Emma S. Bellows, The Paintings of George Bellows (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929), unpaginated, pl. 75 (as Pueblo, Tesuque, No. 2).
“George Wesley Bellows—Painter and Graver, 1882–1925,” Index of Twentieth Century Artists 1 (March 1934), 92.
Van Deren Coke, Taos and Santa Fe: The Artist’s Environment, 1882–1942 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1963), 41, 115n28 (as Tesuque Pueblo 2), 152.
Kansas City Collects: A Selection of Works Privately Owned in the Greater Kansas City Area, exh. cat. (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1965), unpaginated (as Pueblo Tesuque #2).
George Bellows: Paintings, Drawings, Lithographs, exh. cat. (New York: Gallery of Modern Art, 1966), 27–28 (as Pueblo, Tesuque, II).
Donald Hoffmann, “Gallery Receives Gifts, Including George Bellows Painting,” Kansas City Star, September 22, 1985, 6E.
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Bountiful Decade: Selected Acquisitions, 1977–1987. exh. cat. (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson–Atkins
Museum of Art, 1987), 170–71.
Henry Adams, Handbook of American Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1991), 6.
Henry Adams, George Bellows: An American Master, exh. cat. (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1991), 4.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collections. 6th ed. (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 229, 245.
Michael Churchman and Scott Erbes, High Ideals and Aspirations: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 1933–1993 (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 109.
Courtney Graham Donnell, Ivan Albright, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997), 67.
Dean Porter et al., Taos Artists and Their Patrons, 1898–1950, exh. cat. (South Bend, Ind.: Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, 1999), 258–59 (as Pueblo Tesuque Number One).
Margaret C. Conrads, ed. The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Paintings to 1945 (Kansas City, Mo.: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007), 1: 23, 48-51 (repro.), 2: 16-17 (repro.).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 176 (repro.).
