At the end of these travels, he decided that he liked the realistic methods he had learned from Robert Henri.

VOA: special.2011.03.13

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