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The muscular art of painter George Bellows, like his nation, is a study in contrasts. The kid was all-American, a college dropout from Ohio and a minor league baseball player. He showed up in New York City in 1904 and KO’d the art world. “My life begins at this point,” he said. “The rest is …
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