Mississippi Fisherman by George Caleb Bingham
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Mississippi Fisherman

George Caleb Bingham · c. 1850

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. William P. Thomas (1826–1883), Missouri, brother of George Caleb Bingham’s second wife, Eliza K. Thomas Bingham (1830–1876); by descent to his wife Martha Ann Collins Thomas (1830–1928), Lake Charles, LA; by descent to her granddaughter May Cook Caldwell (1889–1963), Lake Charles, LA; with James Graham & Sons Gallery, New York, 1961; sold to Marshall Field V, Illinois and Florida, 1963; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2021.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, <em>George Caleb Bingham 1811–1879</em>, Oct. 79, 1967–Jan. 1, 1968, cat. 20; Cleveland Museum of Art, Jan. 14–Mar. 10, 1968; The Art Galleries, University of California at Los Angeles, Apr. 7–May 79, 7968.
  • Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, <em>The Romantic Vision in America</em>, Oct. 9–Nov. 28, 1971, cat. 31 (ill.).
  • Evanston, IL, Terra Museum of American Art, <em>Life in Nineteenth–Century America</em>, Sept. 11–Nov. 15, 1981, cat. 17.
  • Saint Louis Art Museum, <em>George Caleb Bingham</em>, Feb. 22–May 13, 1990; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, July 15–Sept. 30, 1990, cat. 44.
  • Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX, <em>Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River</em>, Oct. 2, 2014– Jan. 18, 2015, cat. 29; Saint Louis Museum of Art, Feb. 22–May 17, 2015; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 15–Sept. 20, 2015.

Literature

Published references

  • Maurice E. Bloch, <em>George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné</em> (University of California Press, 1967), 80 (A206).
  • Maurice E. Bloch, <em>George Caleb Bingham: The Evolution of an Artist</em> (University of California Press, 1967), 104, 106, ill. pl. 73.
  • Maurice E. Bloch, <em>The Paintings of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné</em> (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986), 191-192 (A234), ill. p. 83.
  • Michael Edward Shapiro, et. al., <em>George Caleb Bingham</em>, exh. cat. (The Saint Louis Art Museum in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990), 159, 167, ill. pl. 44.
  • Michael Edward Shapiro, <em>George Caleb Bingham</em> (Harry N. Abrams, in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1993), 65, 69; ill. p. 65.
  • Nenette Luarca-Shoaf, et. al. <em>Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River</em>, exh. cat. (Yale University Press, 2014), 67, 85, 199; ill. pl. 29.
  • Fred R. Kline, ed., "<em>Mississippi Fisherman</em>, c. 1850 (Bloch86 234)," George Caleb Bingham Catalogue Raisonné, accessed Nov. 22, 2021, <a href=" https://catalogue.binghamcatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=6"> https://catalogue.binghamcatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=6</a> (ill.).

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