- GEORGE WESLEY BELLOWS 1882-1925 Geraldine Lee #2, 1914 Oil on panel, 38 X 30 (96.52 x 76.20 cm.) Signed, lower right Museum purchase, 941-0-101 Despite a career prematurely ended by acute appendicitis in 1925, George Bellows was arguably America's strongest realist painter in the first quarter of the twentieth century. His art serves as a worthy bridge between that of Winslow Homer and Thomas ...butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/george_wesley_bellows_1882.htm