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The Trapper's Return, (painting). Artist:  Bingham, George Caleb, 1811-1879, painter. Title:  The Trapper's Return, (painting). Dates:  1851. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  26 1/4 x 36 1/4 in. (66.7 x 92.1 cm). Inscription:  (Lower right, on side of canoe:) G. C. Bingham/1851 signed Description:  Two figures sit in a canoe on river. A bear cub stands at front of boat. One man rows the canoe with an oar; the other man holds a gun. Subject:  Landscape -- River Figure group -- Male Occupation -- Hunter -- Trapper Architecture -- Boat -- Canoe Animal -- Bear Object -- Weapon -- Gun Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Detroit Institute of Arts, 5200 Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan 48202 Accession Number: 50.138 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of Reed, H., 1851. Herrick, John J., Tarrytown, New York Herrick, George T., Tarrytown, New York Ingham, John B., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Old Print Shop, New York, New York 1950. Gift of Ferry, Dexter M., Jr., 1950. References:  "American paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; volume 1: Works by artists born by 1816," New York : Hudson Hills Press, 1991, no. 11. Bloch, E. Maurice, "The paintings of George Caleb Bingham: a catalogue raisonne," Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986, no. 253. "Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965," Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1965. Curry, Larry, "The American West; painters from Catlin to Russell," Los Angeles, Ca.: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1972. Illustration:  Image on file. "American paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts; volume 1: Works by artists born by 1816," New York : Hudson Hills Press, 1991, pg. 39. Bloch, E. Maurice, "The paintings of George Caleb Bingham: a catalogue raisonne," Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986, pg. 89. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 24150068   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 24150068 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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