ABSTRACT:THE ART WORLD review of the George Bellows retrospective at the National Gallery, in Washington, D.

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George Bellows and his friend Edward Hopper have been the hare and the tortoise of American realist art.

WSJ: George Bellows at Washington's National Gallery of Art

"George Bellows (1882-1925): Modern American Life, " which opens Saturday at London's Royal Academy, is the first-ever British exhibition of this major 20th-century painter.

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The next round in the realist reputation match: "George Bellows, " a major new retrospective, opens June 10 at Washington's National Gallery of Art, traveling to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art for a Nov. 15 opening before moving to London's Royal Academy of Arts next March.

WSJ: George Bellows at Washington's National Gallery of Art

Andy Warhol's 1977 portrait of Jack Nicklaus and five cartoons from George Schulz's "Snoopy's Grand Slam, " in which the "Peanuts" dog plays three tournaments including the Masters and the U.S. Open, are also on display, along with works by James McNeil Whistler, Childe Hassam, George Bellows and Norman Rockwell.

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George Wesley Bellows was born in 1882 in Columbus, Ohio.

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