Dropping out of Ohio State University in 1904, he escaped to enroll at the New York School of Art with the charismatic teacher Robert Henri.

WSJ: Review: Escape to New York | George Bellows at the Royal Academy in London

Bellows was the most talented and, ultimately, the second-best artist who studied with Robert Henri, at the New York School of Art, early in the twentieth century.

NEWYORKER: Young and Gifted

Oscar Bluemner, William Glackens, Marsden Hartley, Robert Henri, John Marin, Maurice Prendergast, Charles Sheeler and John Sloan were all in the Armory Show, and their contributions are now brought back together in Montclair.

WSJ: The Forgotten Americans | The New Spirit: American Art in the Amory Show, 1913 | Montclair Art Museum | By James Panero

Born less than a month apart in 1882, Hopper and Bellows were fellow students of Robert Henri, patriarch of the Ashcan School, an early-20th-century movement known for its gritty depictions of urban life.

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

Magnum Photos was brought to life in the aftermath of World War II by photographers Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger and David "Chim" Seymour, each of whom was well acquainted with covering a changing world, where borders and allegiances were shifting as players set themselves for what was to become the Cold War.

BBC: Revolution through the lenses of Magnum photographers