The Man. In 1882 George Bellows was born in Columbus, Ohio. In 1903 he was a lanky, nervous boy who played right forward on the basketball five and shortstop on the baseball nine at Ohio State University. Even after he came to Manhattan to be a painter, he often paid for dinner or theatre seats by playing professional ball over the weekends. He was interested in looking at people and at things so that he could make pictures of them. For 20 years he made pictures, mostly of people...
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