It is digging tube wells in six provinces, running sanitation projects and medical missions, and working on lighting up 100 villages using solar energy.
Arriving in New York as the skyscrapers were going up and the excavation of two city blocks for Pennsylvania Station began, Bellows thrilled to the dynamism and enormous scale of these undertakings his seven paintings of the making of Penn Station show him engaging with landscape, the dramatic lighting effects of working at night, and handling crowds.