George Caleb Bingham: River Portraitist

Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959. First edition. Quarto with brown cloth boards in brown and green pictorial jacket; xxviii, 454 pages: illustrations; index; 27 cm Near fine in very good jacket with small closed tear to front corner and some light rubbing, mainly to spine; now in archival mylar. Hardcover.

"George Caleb Bingham has come to be one of the most admired painters of American life, largely because of three massive canvases done in the 1840s, entitled, County Election, The Emigration of Daniel Boone, and the Verdict of the People. He scarcely could have escaped being notable as an artist becuase of the scores of portraits he painted, mainly in St. Louis and Washington, between 1833 and 1844. For almost untutored in art, he created his own admirable style. But what has not been known abut him, aside from the canvases noted above, is his vast command of river life in and about St. Louis, best revealed in 112 genre drawings in crayon, preserved by the St. Louis Mercantile Library and here reproduced in their entirety for the first time" --Jacket Copy. **Somewhat heavy item. Additional shipping fees may be needed for expedited or international orders. Please inquire**