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George Bellows's 'Men of the Docks' was the first American painting to enter our collection. Learn more about the subject matter that Bellows is depicting and why it was particularly relevant in April 1912 with Christopher Riopelle, the Neil Westreich Curator of Post 1800 Paintings.
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@darlamcfarland3323 Год назад

The composition is amazing.

@okoftis 5 лет назад

It is so important to understand the circumstances in which each painting is born, thank you so much!

@lyoncristiano8783 5 лет назад

I loved the video and the presentation of Christopher Riopelle I am loving this channel, I am absorbing a lot of content about art, so continue with this wonderful work, a hug to all involved of The National Gallery. Big hugs from Recife, Brazil.

@MiaFeigelsonGallery 5 лет назад

I'll never forget the amazing lecture Christopher Riopelle delivered at the Sainsbury Wing Theatre in October 2014 and which also dealt with this stunning painting by Bellows, which at that time, was the latest acquisition by the National Gallery. This talk is equally brilliant, thank you so very much Dr Riopelle and the National Gallery !

@roygardiner2229 5 лет назад

I thoroughly enjoyed that video! Mr. Riopelle was a terrific presenter and I commend him for this most interesting lecture. The picture itself is, it seems to me, of outstanding quality, and details pointed to by Mr. Riopelle, of the Brooklyn and Manhattan waterfront, of the buildings, the shipping line and the historical context made for a truly excellent story.

@carolynl1424 3 года назад

Terrific lecture - thank you for making it available to everyone!

@lovedicedtomatoes9653 5 лет назад

This was an excellent presentation and I'm glad he didn't shy away from the controversy. It's a pity an American institution didn't step up and purchase it, so it could stay in the US.

@kevinchambers1101 2 года назад

There have been many outcries from the British when Americans have bought their art treasures so maybe this is a little come uppence.

@j0nnyism 2 года назад

Wonderful painting. A great example of realist painting of the period

@jonathanhemming 5 лет назад

He's a great speaker!

@josephososkie3029 5 лет назад

Jonathan Hemming. Agreed. He chooses his words carefully, respectfully.

@gabriellarosa5015 5 лет назад

Excelent explanation! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

@santiagofernandez880 3 года назад

Excellent video. Really well explained.

@gauriblomeyer1835 Год назад

It would be marvellous to present all the great presentations on the pictures in the National Gallery to children at schools, public and private schools. What are museums for ? A privilege for enjoying the rich and nobels ?

@ingridmwallenborg4932 2 года назад

Excellent video, very interesting and concise presentation which as an MA art history student I truly appreciate, huge thanks!

@mobiledude5229 2 года назад

clear and informative. thank you!

@inessamaria2428 5 лет назад

amazing

@monedastacker9487 2 года назад

Thank you sir. I learned a lot.

@essejd 2 года назад

That was brilliant💐 thank you

@nationalgallery 2 года назад

You’re welcome 😊

@j0nnyism 2 года назад

Bellows proves the rule that as long as your values are right and you maintain abstraction you can paint quite ugly and get away with it. It’s the magic of art

@margigreene4395 5 лет назад

Robert Henri was born in Ohio and spent summers in Cozad, Nebraska where there is now a museum.

@gauriblomeyer1835 Год назад

The classification of the great interpretation experts using words as impressionists is very nice and perhaps also the evaluation of who is the greatest painter of this and that classified sections. For me this is not the way, art should be described. In its essence art is beyond the mental capacities.

@kevinchambers1101 2 года назад

How serendipitous that the NG should buy its first American painting where the major subject, without knowing it, is a United Kingdom owned ship.

@j0nnyism 2 года назад

Atm the vast majority of these cruise ships were run by British companies. Many coming from Liverpool and Southampton

@m.i.miller8008 3 года назад

excellent video

@parthsavyasachi9348 4 года назад

Loved the presenter.

@davidvanderveer5882 5 лет назад

You guys are all current viewers and thus real art lovers, bravo! Bellows boxer paintings are much better and worth getting if they ever come up. This comment line is interesting, maybe us in the US can not send our thought....I have printed this a few times and it will not send every time I try!

@nikolasao 5 лет назад

What is in the European tradition mean. At some point in history of art influences from all parts of the world have mixed and overlapped making it hard to say that things like realism or perspective define a painting as in the European tradition. Is a Modigliani in the African tradition because he drew from african art.

@dmmw125 4 года назад

I think it means they saw it as reasonably priced (which it was at $25m) with the justification for it being in the European canon an after thought.

@lenawarelius4195 2 года назад

👏👏👏😊

@davidvanderveer5882 5 лет назад

Bellows boxing paintings are much better pieces and worth getting if they ever come up!

@dmmw125 4 года назад

Unlikely to be purchased at current exchange rates.

@mizofan 5 лет назад

The National Gallery, for all its marvellous paintings, is still too narrow in its outlook and appreciation. There's a whole world of wonderful art. Oh, and contrary to the beliefs represented by various media and institutions in UK and USA, most of the greatest films, like most films in general, are not in English.

@dmmw125 4 года назад

It's specifically for European paintings before 1900. Not sculptures, drawings, mosaics or art after 1900, outside Europe and generally not British artists (unless they are showing it as part of the narrative). It doesn't leave a lot left.

@martynnotman3467 3 года назад

@@dmmw125 London (unlike Paris) has a plethora of Galleries each dealing with their own thing. The Two Tates and the V&A do an admirable job covering much of the rest

@dmmw125 3 года назад

That's sort of my point. It's got a specific remit which it has to stick to, it can't be that broad given the limitations of that remit.

@martynnotman3467 3 года назад

@@dmmw125 it doesnt have to though. Its very good at its limited remit and there are others to take up the slack outside it. Otherwise the duplication of roles and collections would be expensive and confusing

@dmmw125 3 года назад

I'm not disagreeing.

@allangardiner2515 2 года назад

Riopelle says just one sentence in which he makes a guess at what the men are doing and thinking, that he thinks it is about one person missing out on a day job. he figure on the left is surely just as likely to be a scab who the other men are shunning? Riopelle does not think it is worth finding out exactly what Bellow's wanted the painting to show politically.

@tom17a1 5 лет назад

Im always amazed at how much experts get wrong. Robert Henri was pronounced "Hen-Rye" because his last name was changed after his American born father was involved in scandal. Their original name was Cozad, They were never French. Hen-Rye was how the famous artist always pronounced his name. What else do experts get wrong?

@leideneric 5 лет назад

There, I've noticed other mispronunciations of names by curators at NG.

@splodge5714 5 лет назад

Is this really a problem that people pronounce names differently? Never heard such a lot of nonsense over the way van Gogh is spoken.

@RyanLeeW 2 года назад

The fact that he claimed Henri was French indutibly was quite stupid and upsetting in an otherwise decent lecture.

@a.kaiser8965 Год назад

if you think about billionaires today and art patrons, I find it strange Les Wexner a patron of anything Ohio State and a giant art collector...couldn't find a few more million in his pockets to bring the painting back to his birthplace of Columbus. I mean I do kind of wish he talked about where the money came from to purchase the painting, Sir Paul Getty; the coincidences between American and the British seem intertwined in a lot of ways; even patrons.

@josephososkie3029 5 лет назад

There’s a face in the smoke from the tug. BTW, wearing backpacks in a museum????....interesting policy.

@banjopete 5 лет назад

Ducking and weaving ,keep the camera person on their toes!

@barrypknight 5 лет назад

I was standing next to less zoomed in camera and was really aware of this. They prefer not to film people's faces but that became impossible at one stage (you can see through into the adjacent room).

@renzo6490 5 лет назад

Do we believe in “innate talent “? And about his pronunciation of caricature! No American would stress the second syllable...ever.

@dmmw125 4 года назад

His covers been blown.

@renzo6490 2 года назад

@@ezicarus8216 The speaker is American, That is why I made the comment that no American would pronounce the word "caricaturist" as he does. Just as no American would say Ur-EYE-nal for Urinal or skel-EE-tal for sketetal. Maybe he is playing to a British audience by pronouncing it as he believes a Brit would.