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Fine Arts Museum: Teachers' Guide to American Art
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
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...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: "Fur Traders Descending the Missouri"
A view of Bingham's "Fur Traders Descending the Missouri". Includes a description and ownership information as well.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: George Caleb Bingham
View an image of Bingham's famous "Fur Traders Descending the Missouri."
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George Caleb Bingham: Boatmen on the Missouri 1846
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.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: George Caleb Bingham
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.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: American Art: George Caleb Bingham: In a Quandary (1851)
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.
Art Cyclopedia
Artcyclopedia: George Caleb Bingham
Artcyclopedia provides information and links to various paintings and biographical information about American artist George Caleb Bingham.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Rolling on the River
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.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Picturing America: Bingham: The County Election [Pdf]
Information about and analysis of "The County Election," a well-known painting by Bingham of democracy in action in 1852 America.
ArtQuizz
Art Quizz: Romanticism (2)
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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Goin' West by Way of the River: Flatboats
Beautiful paintings of flatboats by George Caleb Bingham and Currier and Ives.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: George Caleb Bingham
This visual website from Google Cultural Institute shares background information and photos about George Caleb Bingham.
Van Gogh Gallery
The Van Gogh Gallery: George Caleb Bingham
Biographical summary of the life and career of William Glackens, American frontier painter and politician known as "the Missouri Artist."
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
An image of "Fur Traders Descending the Missouri", created by George Caleb Bingham, c. 1845 (Oil on canvas, 74 x 92 cm).