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My Mother  1921

by George Bellows

“There she would sit, as in a throne,” a niece once recalled of George Bellows’s mother, Anna. In this painting, which evokes the Parisian interiors of such French artists as Édouard Manet, Bellows depicted his mother in a large chair in the Victorian parlor of their family home in Columbus, Ohio. This forthright presentation of a distinguished, elderly woman with a strong...
Size: 
210.8 × 124.5 cm (83 × 49 in.)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago