George Caleb Bingham

1811–1879 · United States · Tonalism

George Caleb Bingham (March 20, 1811 – July 7, 1879) is recognized as one of the most important American artists of the 19th century. Known in his lifetime as “the Missouri artist,” he is distinguished among the first generation of painters of the early American West for classic narrative scenes drawn from his observation and experience. Wikipedia

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“Fur Traders Descending the Missouri”, 1845 — Metropolitan Museum of Art
“The Verdict of the People”, 1854 — Saint Louis Art Museum
“John Quincy Adams”, 1850 — National Portrait Gallery
“Boatmen on the Missouri”, 1846 — Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
“Landscape with Cattle”, 1846 — Saint Louis Art Museum
“Mrs. Henry Lewis (Elizabeth Morton Woodson)”, 1838 — Saint Louis Art Museum
“Raftsmen Playing Cards”, 1847 — Saint Louis Art Museum
“Self Portrait”, 1834 — Saint Louis Art Museum
“Stump Speaking”, 1853 — Saint Louis Art Museum
“The Belated Wayfarers”, 1856 — Saint Louis Art Museum
“Cottage Scenery”, 1845 — Corcoran Gallery of Art
“The Jolly Flatboatmen”, 1846
“Mississippi Boatman”, 1850
“Country Politician”, 1849 — Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
“Landscape with Waterwheel and Boy Fishing”, 1853 — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“The Squatters”, 1850 — Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“A View of a Lake in the Mountains”, 1856 — Los Angeles County Museum of Art
“Rachel Spears Johnston (1786-1850)”, 1837 — Minneapolis Institute of Art
“Captain William Johnston (1776-1850)”, 1849–1850 — Minneapolis Institute of Art
“Canvassing for a Vote”, 1852 — The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
“View of Pike's Peak”, 1872 — Amon Carter Museum of American Art
“Daniel Boone escorting settlers through the Cumberland Gap”, 1851 — Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum
“Landscape with Fisherman” — Colby College Museum of Art
“Portrait of Lewis Allen Dicken (L.A.D.) Crenshaw”, 1869 — Springfield Art Museum
“Portrait of Vinnie Ream”, 1876
“Landscape; rural scene”, 1845
“The Storm” — Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
“The Jolly Flatboatman”, 1877 — Terra Foundation for American Art
“Horse Thief”, 1852
“The County Election”, 1852 — Saint Louis Art Museum
“The Dull Story”, 1843 — Saint Louis Art Museum
“The Student (Dr. Oscar Fitzland Potter)”, 1848 — Saint Louis Art Museum
“Self-Portrait”, 1877 — The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
“Captured by Indians”, 1848 — Saint Louis Art Museum
“General Richard Gentry”, 1837 — Saint Louis Art Museum
“Jolly Flatboatmen in Port”, 1857 — Saint Louis Art Museum
“Judge Henry Lewis”, 1838 — Saint Louis Art Museum
“The Wood-Boat”, 1850 — Saint Louis Art Museum
“Lighter Relieving a Steamboat Aground”, 1847 — White House
“Shooting for the Beef”, 1850 — Brooklyn Museum

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