On Feb. 12, The Cincinnati Art Museum’s latest art exhibition, “George Bellows: American Life in Print,” will close. Beginning on Oct. 25, the exhibition showcased 55 of Bellows’ lithographs and drawings to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his death. 

Bellows was born in Columbus, Ohio, and moved to New York in his 20s, where his realist paintings of urban life in New York gained him lots of popularity. 

Later in his career, Bellows experimented with a new medium called lithography, where a chemical reaction is used to transfer a design to a piece of stone. He brought attention to this printing style and transformed it into a new art form, using it to expose social and political issues he saw in American life around the time of the First World War.

Bellows died at the age of 42 but is remembered for his powerful images that are still admired by artists today.