Artist: George Caleb Bingham
Date: 1868
Size: 142 x 201 cm
Museum: Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati, United States)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
Idyllic scenes of boatmen and fur traders at leisure along the Missouri River and boisterous renditions of small-town politics made George Caleb Bingham one of the most celebrated artists of the mid-nineteenth century. The distribution of his paintings and engravings by lottery through the American Art Union to its widespread membership established his works as the quintessential images of frontier life. These works are captivating not only for the many colorful activities and character types they depict, but also for their ordered, geometric composition, the figure studies incorporated into each, and the distinctive, velvety qualities of the artist’s color and light.The melodramatic
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