George Caleb Bingham

by Michael Edward Shapiro

Book Overview

George Caleb Bingham was one of Missouri's and one of American's greatest artists. Raised in central Missouri, he lived as an itinerant painter in St. Louis and, as a mature artist, in Independence and Kansas City. Working before America's vastness was made manageable by a web of roads and railways, Bingham found his subjects in the trappers and boatmen who populated his state's great rivers, the Missouri and the Mississippi. He also depicted social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810931214
• ISBN13: 9780810931213
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: ABRAMS
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 3.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.3" x 12.3"