George Caleb Bingham

Author : Nenette Luarca-Shoaf,Claire M. Barry,Nancy Heugh,Amon Carter Museum of American Art,Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser,Dorothy Mahon
Publisher : Other Distribution
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300206704

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Navigating the West by Nenette Luarca-Shoaf,Claire M. Barry,Nancy Heugh,Amon Carter Museum of American Art,Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser,Dorothy Mahon Pdf

A new look at George Caleb Bingham's iconic river paintings and his creative process in making them George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) moved to Missouri as a child and began painting the scenes of Missouri life for which he is now famous in the 1840s. Navigating the West explores how Bingham's iconic river paintings reveal the cultural and economic significance of the massive Mississippi and Missouri waterways to mid-19th-century society. Focusing on the artist's working methods and preparatory drawings, the book also explores Bingham's representations of people and places and situates these images in a dialogue with other contemporary depictions of the region. Of particular note are two landmark essays investigating Bingham's creative process through comparisons of infrared images of 17 of his paintings with both his preparatory drawings and the completed works, casting new light on his previously understudied process. Technical analysis of the artist's lauded masterpiece, Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, reveals Bingham's considerable revisions to the painting. In the concluding essay, the 20th-century revival of the artist's work is discussed within the context of American Regionalism and in light of a shifting sequence of narratives about the nation's past and future. Distributed for the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and the Saint Louis Art Museum Exhibition Schedule: Amon Carter Museum of American Art (10/04/14-01/04/15) Saint Louis Art Museum (02/22/15-05/17/15) The Metropolitan Museum of Art (06/22/15-09/20/15)

Author : E. Maurice Bloch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015015668612

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The Paintings of George Caleb Bingham by E. Maurice Bloch Pdf

Author : Nancy Rash
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300047312

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The Painting and Politics of George Caleb Bingham by Nancy Rash Pdf

The author views Bingham's art in the context of the political milieu in Missouri. The paintings show "other associations and deeper levels of meaning." She provides an exegesis of the paintings by the study of Bingham's politics, his speeches to legislatures, and his articles. Previous writers gave Bingham intentions that this book maintains he did not have.

Author : Michael Edward Shapiro,George Caleb Bingham
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015032878871

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George Caleb Bingham by Michael Edward Shapiro,George Caleb Bingham Pdf

George Caleb Bingham was one of Missouri's and one of American's greatest artists. Raised in central Missouri, he lived as an itinerant painter in St. Louis and, as a mature artist, in Independence and Kansas City. Working before America's vastness was made manageable by a web of roads and railways, Bingham found his subjects in the trappers and boatmen who populated his state's great rivers, the Missouri and the Mississippi. He also depicted social and political life of what was then still the frontier, preserving with timeless, classic dignity the features and spirit of the American democracy.

Author : Paul C. Nagel
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826264633

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George Caleb Bingham by Paul C. Nagel Pdf

In this fascinating work, Paul Nagel tells the full story of George Caleb Bingham (1811–1879), one of America’s greatest nineteenth-century painters. While Nagel assesses Bingham’s artistic achievements, he also portrays another very important part of the artist’s career—his service as a statesman and political leader in Missouri. Until now, Bingham’s public service has been largely forgotten, overshadowed by his triumph as a great artist. Yet Nagel finds there were times when Bingham yearned more to be a successful politician than to be a distinguished painter. Born in Virginia, Bingham moved with his family to Missouri when he was eight years old. He spent his youth in Arrow Rock, Missouri, and returned there as an adult. He also kept art studios in Columbia and St. Louis. In his last years, he served as the first professor of art at the University of Missouri in Columbia. Because of his ties to the state, he was known nationally as “the Missouri artist.” Bingham began his distinguished public service to Missouri as a member of the legislature. During the Civil War, he grew even more politically involved, holding the office of state treasurer, and he remained active throughout the period of Reconstruction. From 1875 to 1877, Bingham served as Missouri’s adjutant general, with most of that time spent in Washington, D. C., where he attempted to settle Missourians’ war claims against the federal government. Contrary to the idyllic scenes portrayed in most of his paintings, Bingham’s life ranged from moments of high achievement to times of intense distress and humiliation. His career was often touched by controversy, sorrow, and frustration. Personal letters and other manuscripts reveal Bingham’s life to be quite complicated, and Paul Nagel attempts to uncover the truth in this biography. Beautifully illustrated, this book includes a magnificent landscape entitled Horse Thief, which had been missing since Bingham painted it sometime around 1852. Recently discovered by art historian Fred R. Kline, this splendid work will appear in print for the first time. Anyone who has an interest in art, Missouri history, or politics will find this new book extremely valuable.

Author : George Caleb Bingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112051359773

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Special Exhibition of the Paintings of George Caleb Bingham by George Caleb Bingham Pdf

Author : Albert Christ-Janer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : UOM:39076006113356

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George Caleb Bingham by Albert Christ-Janer Pdf

Presents the life of George Caleb Bingham and a selection of 177 of his works. -- Dust jacket.

Author : George Caleb Bingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography
ISBN : 098169392X

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But I Forget That I Am a Painter and Not a Politician by George Caleb Bingham Pdf

George Caleb Bingham, who earned the sobriquet of "the Missouri artist," evolved from a locally known portrait painter to an artist of national renown. His letters illuminate the complex personality of a man actively involved in the political, social, and cultural life of nineteenth-century America -- an eyewitness to westward expansion, a firsthand observer of river and rail commerce, and a participant in the Civil War. [...] In a fascinating introduction, Joan Stack summarizes Bingham's artistic career. She focuses on the artist's efforts to market himself as a "western" painter and finds that much of his national reputation in the nineteenth century derived from the genre and political paintings of the 1840s and 1850s, particularly those from which prints were made and widely distributed. Readers interested in nineteenth-century Missouri will find these letters from the pen of an artist who maintained a keen connection to the political affairs of his time truly engaging.

Author : Fern Helen Rusk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : WISC:89054426036

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George Caleb Bingham by Fern Helen Rusk Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1100115198

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George Caleb Bingham by Anonim Pdf

Author : Albert Christ-Janer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015009405211

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George Caleb Bingham of Missouri by Albert Christ-Janer Pdf

This volume attempts to fulfill three objectives: to analyze and clarify the genre work of George Caleb Bingham by presenting some unpublished drawings; to throw new light upon the personality and the work of the artist by including a series of recently discovered letters; and to correct some mistaken material published upon this subject and to amplify, with information gleaned from new sources, the history of the Missouri artist--Introduction.

Author : Greg Olson
Publisher : Truman State University Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612482071

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George Caleb Bingham by Greg Olson Pdf

As a child, George Caleb Bingham dreamed of becoming a painter. He taught himself to paint and learned from other artists when he could. George painted everyday people doing everyday things, like people working on the river or voting in an election. George also had a passion for politics and he became a state legislator in 1848. After the Civil War, George left his political career and became the first professor of art at the University of Missouri. George Caleb Bingham’s paintings are a visual history of the wild frontier of a young America. George’s scenes are still popular because they show the beginning of a new nation, full of life and possibilities

Author : Fern Helen Rusk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 0243096232

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George Caleb Bingham by Fern Helen Rusk Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Johns
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300057547

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American Genre Painting by Elizabeth Johns Pdf

American genre painting flourished in the thirty years before the Civil War, a period of rapid social change that followed the election of President Andrew Jackson. It has long been assumed that these paintings--of farmers, western boatmen and trappers, blacks both slave and free, middle-class women, urban urchins, and other everyday folk--served as records of an innocent age, reflecting a Jacksonian optimism and faith in the common man. In this enlightening book Elizabeth Johns presents a different interpretation--arguing that genre paintings had a social function that related in a more significant and less idealistic way to the political and cultural life of the time. Analyzing works by William Sidney Mount, George Caleb Bingham, David Gilmore Blythe, Lilly Martin Spencer, and others, Johns reveals the humor and cynicism in the paintings and places them in the context of stories about the American character that appeared in sources ranging from almanacs and newspapers to joke books and political caricature. She compares the productions of American painters with those of earlier Dutch, English, and French genre artists, showing the distinctive interests of American viewers. Arguing that art is socially constructed to meet the interests of its patrons and viewers, she demonstrates that the audience for American genre paintings consisted of New Yorkers with a highly developed ambition for political and social leadership, who enjoyed setting up citizens of the new democracy as targets of satire or condescension to satisfy their need for superiority. It was this network of social hierarchies and prejudices--and not a blissful celebration of American democracy--that informed the look and the richly ambiguous content of genre painting.

Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951001592905W

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George Caleb Bingham by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf