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Fine Arts Museum: Teachers' Guide to American Art

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This guide focuses on twenty-four paintings from the impressive collection of American art housed at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. The earliest work, a portrait of the children of a Puritan family, dates from 1670. The last piece...
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De Young Museum of American Art: Boatmen on the Missouri: George Caleb Bingham

For Students 9th - 10th
A site about the painter, George Caleb Bingham, created by The De Young Museum of American Art. The painting "Boatmen on the Mississippi," is shown and described on the first page. Click "Next," on the bottom to view and read about...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art: "Fur Traders Descending the Missouri"

For Students 9th - 10th
A view of Bingham's "Fur Traders Descending the Missouri". Includes a description and ownership information as well.
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University of Virginia

University of Virginia: George Caleb Bingham

For Students 9th - 10th
View an image of Bingham's famous "Fur Traders Descending the Missouri."
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George Caleb Bingham: Boatmen on the Missouri 1846

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a brief summary on the life of George Bingham, and the painting of the "Boatmen on the Missouri". Also includes a copy of the painting.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: George Caleb Bingham

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, this site provides biographical information on George Caleb Bingham in addition to an extensive listing of his works as displayed at the museum.
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Huntington Library

Huntington Library: American Art: George Caleb Bingham: In a Quandary (1851)

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief narrative of the content of the painting, In a Quandary, by George Caleb Bingham, which shows boatmen on the Mississippi River relaxing at a game of cards. Boatmen such as these were one of Bingham's main themes.
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: George Caleb Bingham

For Students 9th - 10th
Artcyclopedia provides information and links to various paintings and biographical information about American artist George Caleb Bingham.
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National Gallery of Art

National Gallery of Art: Rolling on the River

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students will explore how westward expansion increased the number of jobs available in the nineteenth century, including being a flat boatman through a painting by George Caleb Bingham.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Picturing America: Bingham: The County Election [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about and analysis of "The County Election," a well-known painting by Bingham of democracy in action in 1852 America.
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ArtQuizz

Art Quizz: Romanticism (2)

For Students 9th - 10th
A quiz on Romanticism. This is a great tool for assessment or review and an even greater way to incorporate technology in the artroom. This site is translated from the original French version. The homepage provides different languages.
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Other

Goin' West by Way of the River: Flatboats

For Students 9th - 10th
Beautiful paintings of flatboats by George Caleb Bingham and Currier and Ives.
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: George Caleb Bingham

For Students 9th - 10th
This visual website from Google Cultural Institute shares background information and photos about George Caleb Bingham.
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Van Gogh Gallery

The Van Gogh Gallery: George Caleb Bingham

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical summary of the life and career of William Glackens, American frontier painter and politician known as "the Missouri Artist."
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: Fur Traders Descending the Missouri

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "Fur Traders Descending the Missouri", created by George Caleb Bingham, c. 1845 (Oil on canvas, 74 x 92 cm).
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Curated OER

George Caleb Bingham

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An image of George Caleb Bingham.
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Curated OER

George Caleb Bingham

For Students Pre-K - 1st
An image of George Caleb Bingham.