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Timeless Couple

Cherish your elders today on Grandparents' Day!

George Bellows's portraits have been called "lively yet humane, bold but not too bold, polite but never unctuous, American to the core." Do you think that characterization suits Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Wase?

This painter, better known for his gritty scenes of boxing matches, grew up in Ohio, then studied in New York at William Merritt Chase's New York School of Art. In New York he became a member of the "Ashcan School," a group that also included John Sloan and George Luks.

Source: Paul Richard. "George Bellows' Portraits," The Washington Post, 4 November 1981.

Pictured: George Bellows, 1882–1925, Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Wase, 1924, oil, 51 1/4 x 63 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Paul Mellon.