Minneapolis Institute of Art

Nude Standing: Seen from Back

George Bellows

Date: c. 1923
Medium: Conté crayon and tuche
Department: Arts of the Americas
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Art

This women’s animated but unnatural pose may stem from George Bellows’s interest in Dynamic Symmetry, a means of constructing compositions using mathematical rules. After making a serious study of the rules, Bellows told Robert Henri that he found them more valuable than the study of anatomy. United States, Americas

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