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	Teachers' Guide to American Art
		Bingham, as a son of the American frontier, may have been trying to challenge the popular, eastern stereotype of flatboatmen in particular, and of life in the West in general.
		Bingham, as a regional booster and aspiring politician, may have been trying to revise the widespread conception of frontier as wilderness and show it as a place hospitable to commercial enterprise.
		George Caleb Bingham was born in Virginia in 1811.
	www.thinker.org /fam/education/publications/guide-american/slide-10.html (759 words)

	George Caleb Bingham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		He apprenticed with a cabinet maker and with a portrait artist, identified by some as Chester Harding.
		From 1856 to 1859, Bingham studied art with the members of the Düsseldorf School in Düsseldorf, Germany.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Caleb_Bingham (256 words)

	BookRags: George Caleb Bingham Biography
		Bingham was born March 20, 1811, in rural Virginia.
		When Bingham was 16, he was apprenticed to a cabinetmaker in the river town of Boonville, Mo. Soon after, determined to be an artist, he took up sign painting and about 1833 began painting portraits.
		Bingham's canvases of life on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers are as revealing, humorous, and lyrical as Mark Twain's later writing on the subject.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/george-caleb-bingham (857 words)

	GEORGE CALEB BINGHAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Lour quite justified admiration for George Caleb Bingham's paintings of Missouri River flatboatmen and frontier political events-images which create much of our mythic vision of the American West-we forget that his portraits are more numerous by far and provided the greater part of his livelihood.
		It was also in 1840 that Bingham gave a political speech and painted a banner supporting William Henry Harrison, the presidential candidate of the Whig Party, of which Bingham was an ardent member.
		Bingham returned to Missouri from Washington in late 1844 to paint portraits of prominent politicians, and himself became a member of the Missouri Legislature and later State Treasurer and Adjutant General.
	www.butlerart.com /pc_book/pages/george.htm (416 words)

	George Caleb Bingham
		Country : US George Caleb Bingham was born in Piedmont country, in Virginia, where he remained until 1819 when a turn in fortune forced his family to move to Franklin, Missouri.
		By the time he was twenty-two, Bingham was traveling up and down the river, painting portraits in a vigorously drawn and linear style, with strong color applied in large areas, a manner that he probably acquired from the ancestral portraits he had seen in settlers' homes.
		Bingham realized that he must move from Missouri in order to become a better artist, and after studying at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, he moved to Washington in 1840, again to paint portraits.
	www.3d-dali.com /Artist-Biographies/George_Caleb_Bingham.html (494 words)

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		George Caleb Bingham was one of the most important American painters of scenes of everyday life in the 19
		Bingham was born into a prosperous family in Virginia and moved to central Missouri in 1819 when the family suffered a financial setback.
		Interest in Bingham began to revive in the 1930s, and later his reputation grew substantial when painter Thomas Hart Benton championed his work.
	www.kclibrary.org /localhistory/media.cfm?mediaID=34842 (335 words)

	The Art History of Missouri
		George Caleb Bingham was a self-trained artist that had loved to draw pictures from a very young age.
		While Bingham was still a young boy, a portrait painter passed through his town, which inspired his developement into the great painter that he would later become.
		In 1923 while George was still a young boy, his father passed away, and his family could no longer afford to live in the city.
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	George Caleb Bingham
		George Caleb Bingham, (1811-1879), was a Boonslick transplant, moving to Franklin, Mo. from Virginia at the age of 8.
		By the age of 22, Bingham was "an itinerate portrait painter," said Robert Bussabarger, an art professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
		The Bingham Gallery on the Columbia campus was established in his honor in 1989.
	www.mo-river.net /Arts/georgecalebbingham.htm (606 words)

	George Caleb Bingham - The State Historical Society of Missouri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Born to Henry Vest and Mary Amend Bingham on March 20, 1811, Bingham moved with his parents and five siblings from their Virginia farm to the Missouri Territory in 1818.
		Desiring to paint influential political figures, Bingham left Missouri in 1841 for Washington, D.C. The trip resulted from his friendship with James S. Rollins, whom Bingham had painted in 1834.
		Bingham stumped as the Whig candidate for state representative for Saline County in 1846.
	www.umsystem.edu /shs/Binghamcoll.html (834 words)

	The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Works of Art: American Paintings and Sculpture
		Bingham, whose earliest efforts were portraits, produced a masterpiece of genre painting with little precedent in his oeuvre.
		The polar opposition of quietude, savagery, and frontier danger embodied in the paintings held enormous appeal for urban viewers.
		Bingham painted a similar, though less extraordinary, picture called "The Trapper's Return" (Detroit Institute of Arts) in New York in 1851.
	www.metmuseum.org /collections/view1.asp?dep=2&full=0&item=33.61 (238 words)

	GEORGE CALEB BINGHAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Born in Augusta, County Virginia in the Shenandoah River Valley, George Caleb Bingham became known for elegant, classically rendered Missouri and Mississippi River genre--mid 19th century atmospheric scenes of boatmen bringing cargo to the American West.
		From 1840 to 1844, Bingham was based in Washington DC where he painted portraits of prominent citizens, but he failed to achieve fame until he produced western genre works beginning in 1845 with "Fur Traders Descending the Missouri."
		In 1846, Bingham was elected to the state legislature, but the election was contested and Bingham lost the office.
	www.kodnergallery.com /docs/Featured/bingham.htm (369 words)

	George Caleb Bingham
		George Caleb Bingham was born on 20th March, 1811, in August County, Virginia.
		In 1827 Bingham became an apprentice to a cabinetmaker in Boonville.
		George Caleb Bingham, was appalled by the consequences of Order No 11 and wrote to General Thomas Ewing saying: “If you execute this order, I shall make you infamous with pen and brush".
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	Bingham George Caleb - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Bingham George Caleb - Search Results - MSN Encarta
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	George Caleb Bingham (1811 - 1879) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		George Caleb Bingham, Boatmen on the Missouri, 1846
		George Caleb Bingham - A View of a Lake in the Mountains c.
		George Caleb Bingham - Rachel Spears Johnston (1786-1850) c.
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	George Caleb Bingham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		George Caleb Bingham was born in August County, Virginia, March 20, 1811.
		When George was 16 he went to Boonville where he apprenticed to a local cabinetmaker.
		Bingham moved to Independence before the outbreak of the Civil War.
	www.kcpt.org /uniquely_kc/series/ep2/bingham.html (189 words)

	NGA Classroom: Nineteenth-Century America in Art & Literature: Art Discussion: Jolly Flatboatmen and poem
		Bingham was a self-trained painter who lived most of his life in Missouri.
		Working before America’s vastness was made accessible by roads and railways, Bingham found his subjects in the boatmen and trappers who populated his state’s great rivers, the Missouri and the Mississippi.
		Bingham may well have witnessed a scene such as the one he recorded in the Jolly Flatboatmen as a child sitting on the banks of the Missouri River.
	www.nga.gov /education/classroom/19th_century_america/art_flatboatmen.htm (899 words)

	George Caleb Bingham Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		George Caleb Bingham at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
		George Caleb Bingham in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
		George Caleb Bingham at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. Portrait of John Quincy Adams
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/bingham_george_caleb.html (343 words)

	George Caleb Bingham Middle School
		Bingham Middle School is truly a special place where all students are challenged to develop their unique talents in a nurturing atmosphere of high expectations and personal support.
		We are certain that you will be impressed with the quality of our teachers, our programs, and our positive focus on student achievement.
		Bingham "Thunderstruck" t-shirts will be available at a cost of $8.00.
	www.indep.k12.mo.us /bingham (323 words)

	George Caleb Bingham
		In the 1830s Bingham was producing rather wooden portraits but, by 1845, his style had developed to such an extent that his work was unrecognizable.
		With these paintings of North American frontier life, often of views of the Missouri River, Bingham focuses on everyday scenes.
		In an age when the camera was not widely available, Bingham provides an interesting insight into his fellow citizens in Missouri and their way of life.
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	Amazon.com: George Caleb Bingham (Library of American Art): Books: Michael Edward Shapiro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Some critics consider the paintings created by George Bingham (1811-79) to be the ultimate expression of the American character rendered in oils on canvas.
		Most famous for his depiction of life on the Mississippi and of Midwestern political gatherings, Bingham reached his artistic zenith from 1845 to 1855.
		Through a careful consideration of the historical record, they have put to rest the prevalent notion that these seemingly simple and democratic paintings are a direct reflection of Bingham's personality.
	www.amazon.com /George-Caleb-Bingham-Library-American/dp/0810931214 (568 words)

	KidsArt's Art History on Imagination Station - George Caleb Bingham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It was created in 1846 and is called "Boatmen on the Missouri." The artist was George Caleb Bingham.
		Bingham grew up on the banks of the great Missouri River.
		Bingham was one of the first artists to paint the American west, and one of the only artists to have been raised on the frontier.
	www.kidsart.com /IS/436.html (334 words)

	George Caleb Bingham
		Bingham, George Caleb, 1811–79, American genre painter and politician, b.
		Augusta co., Va. His family moved (1819) to Missouri, which was the site of most of Bingham's activities.
		Bingham entered Missouri politics with his election to the legislature in 1848 (he had been defeated in 1846); he served as state treasurer (1862–65), after a year in the Union army, and became state adjutant general in 1875.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0807596.html (218 words)

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		Fur Traders Descending the Missouri by Bingham, George Caleb Art Print 28x2...
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	George Caleb Bingham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Look at this painting: a cat and his human friends descending the Missouri after a successful hunt.
		The picture was painted by George Caleb Bingham (American painter 1811-1879).
		Currently the picture is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mew York.
	www.gorki.net /Art/fa0.html (135 words)

	George Caleb Bingham biography - Oil painting Art reproductions - Art Sender (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		George Caleb Bingham biography - Oil painting Art reproductions - Art Sender
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		George Caleb Bingham had a technical facility for painting that he developed over a remarkably short space of time.
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	George Caleb Bingham - Books - Compare Prices, Reviews and Buy at NexTag - Price - Review
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		The Painting and Politics of George Caleb Bingham
		The Paintings of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonne
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	George Caleb Bingham - Artist of Missouri and the American Frontier
		George Caleb Bingham - Artist of Missouri and the American Frontier
		New Developments in Bingham’s Established Body of Work
		Acting Editor, The George Caleb Bingham Catalogue Raisonne Supplement
	www.georgecalebbingham.org (61 words)

	ARC :: George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) :: Page 1 of 1
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		This image of George Caleb Bingham was kindly provided by Don Kurtz.
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	Films Media Group - George Caleb Bingham
		This program provides a portrait of one of America’s foremost 19th-century painters, whose vivid work provides us with an unrivaled view of life along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.
		The program also covers Bingham’s role as the creator of political genre painting.
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