George Caleb Bingham (March 20, 1811 – July 7, 1879) was an American realist artist, whose work depicts American life in the frontier lands along the Missouri River.
Left to languish in obscurity, George's work was rediscovered in the 1930s and he is now widely considered one of the greatest American painters of the 1800s.
Born in Augusta County, Virginia, George was the second of seven children born to Henry Vest Bingham and Mary Amend. Upon their marriage, Matthias Amend, Mary's father, gave ownership to the family mill, 1,180 acres of land and several slaves to Henry with the agreement that Matthias could live with the family the rest of his life. Henry offered the land and mill as surety for a friend's debt and, when the friend died in 1818, all was lost. George's family soon moved to Franklin, Missouri "where the land was said to be bountiful, fertile and cheap."
George was a self-taught artist. His sole childhood exposure to the field was as a nine-year-old boy, when famed American portraitist Chester Harding visited Franklin looking for business, having recently sketched Daniel Boone in Warren County, Missouri. George assisted Harding during his brief stay, an experience that left a powerful impression.
George was elected to the Missouri General Assembly in 1848.
Toward the end of his life he was a professor of art at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri. - wikipedia
Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap Movement: Realism Collection: Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, Missouri Dimensions: 36 1/2 x 50 1/4 in. (92.7 x 127.6 cm) Date: 1851-52 Artist: George Caleb Bingham
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Ferrymen Playing Cards Movement: Realism Collection: Bridgeman Art Library, London Dimensions: 28.0 x 38.0 in (71.2 x 96.5 cm) Date: 1847 Artist: George Caleb Bingham
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Fur Traders Descending the Missouri Movement: Realism Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Dimensions: 29 x 36 1/2 in. (73.7 x 92.7 cm) Date: 1845 Artist: George Caleb Bingham
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Study of a Man Reading Movement: Realism Collection: The Saint Louis Mercantile Library Association Dimensions: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 in. Date: c. 1844-49 Artist: George Caleb Bingham
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The County Election Movement: Realism Collection: The Saint Louis Art Museum Dimensions: 35 7/16 x 48 3/4 in. Date: 1851-52 Artist: George Caleb Bingham
