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George Caleb Bingham (March 20, 1811 – July 7, 1879) was an American artist, soldier and politician known in his lifetime as "the Missouri Artist". [1] Initially a Whig, he was elected as a delegate to the Missouri legislature before the American Civil War where he fought against the extension of slavery westward.
In 2016, Holland Cotter of The New York Times considered the painting among the best presidential portraits. [4] In 2020, Crispin artwell of Reason magazine wrote, "John Quincy Adams, by George Caleb Bingham, sets the chastened tone of the generation after the Founders, a beautifully flat and direct approach that contrasts favorably with the grand gestures that preceded it and with some of ...
The Bingham Home, built by artist George Caleb Bingham, is a historic house museum furnished as in the 1880s. The 1834 Huston Tavern is a restaurant. A walking tour of the site includes the old courthouse, town doctor's home, stone jail, and other historic buildings.
George Catlin depicted the West and its people as honestly as possible. George Caleb Bingham, and later Frederic Remington, Charles M. Russell, the photographer Edward S. Curtis, and others recorded the U.S. Western heritage and the Old American West through their art. Wind Mountain, watercolor painting (between 1857 and 1862) by James Madison ...
The Verdict of the People is an 1854 painting by George Caleb Bingham, currently owned by the Saint Louis Art Museum. The last painting of Bingham's Election Series, The Verdict of the People tells the end of the story represented in the series. Within this painting, Bingham hid several political motives and ideas similar to the rest of the ...
A native of Carrollton, Missouri, Austin studied from 1877 to 1879 at the University of Missouri, becoming a favored pupil of George Caleb Bingham, to whom she gave two of her paintings. [1] In 1879 she moved to Sacramento , home of her great-uncle, Jefferson Wilcoxson; [ 2 ] he was ill, and in return for her care he provided money for her to ...
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