George Caleb Bingham Prints
1811–1879 · American · Luminism
Wall art by George Caleb Bingham, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
12 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About George Caleb Bingham
George Caleb Bingham was born in Virginia in March 1811 and grew up in Franklin, Missouri, where he taught himself to paint portraits and, apart from a few months at the Pennsylvania Academy in 1838, learned from engravings. Between 1845 and 1857 he painted the river life of the Missouri and Mississippi, fur traders drifting at dawn, boatmen dancing on flatboats, raftsmen at cards, in a clear, still light with figures arranged like a frieze, and the three Election pictures that are the fullest record of frontier democracy. The American Art-Union distributed engravings of them to thousands of subscribers. He served in the Missouri legislature, as state treasurer and as adjutant general, studied in Düsseldorf in 1856–59, and died in Kansas City in July 1879. His river pictures print as calm, golden scenes for a study, dining room or lake house.