Two Women
Two Women
Artist
George Wesley Bellows
(1882 - 1925)
Date1924
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions59 1/4 × 65 1/2 in. (150.5 × 166.4 cm)
Framed: 68 in. × 72 1/8 in. × 3 3/8 in.
Framed: 68 in. × 72 1/8 in. × 3 3/8 in.
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2014.25
Signedl.r.: Geo Bellows
Accession number
2014.25
On View
On viewLabel TextGeorge Wesley Bellows never traveled to Europe, but because of print publications and exhibitions in America featuring European art, he would have seen sixteenth-century Italian painter Titian’s Sacred and Profane Love, upon which Two Women is based. The finely dressed woman represents material goods, while the unclothed woman represents pure love. At this time, Sigmund Freud’s theories about sexual desire and repression, and expectations of women to be both pure and seductive, were much discussed.
George Wesley Bellows nunca viajó a Europa, pero las publicaciones impresas y las exposiciones de arte europeo en los Estados Unidos permitieron que el artista viera la pintura Amor sacro y amor profano del artista italiano del siglo XVI, Tiziano, en la cual basó la pintura Two Women (Dos mujeres). La mujer vestida elegantemente representa los bienes materiales, mientras que la muer desnuda representa el amor puro. Durante esta época, las teorías de Sigmund Freud sobre el deseo y la represión sexual, y la expectativa de que las mujeres fueran tanto puras como seductoras, eran discutidas ampliamente.
