George Henry Frederick BELL

George Henry Frederick BELL
1878
1966

Born in Australia, he studied at the Melbourne Gallery School (under McCubbin) and also in Paris with Laurens. Bell worked in St Ives for a year in 1909, and then for several years in Chelsea, London. Strongly influenced by post-Impressionism, he became a war artist in WWI. Back in Australia in the 1920s, he taught as a leader of the Modern Movement, and became an influential critic.

media

Painter of landscapes; critic

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references

Benezit

Cros (1984) The Shining Sands

Hardie (2009) Artists in Newlyn and West Cornwall (p313)

Johnson & Greutzner (1975) Dictionary of British Artists

 Whybrow (1994) St Ives (1901-10 list pp 213-4)