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Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, (painting). Artist:  Bingham, George Caleb, 1811-1879, painter. Title:  Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, (painting). Dates:  1845. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  29 x 36 1/2 in. (73.7 x 92.7 cm). Description:  American frontier scene depicting a man and his son in a canoe on a calm Missouri River. At the front of the boat is a small bear cub on a leash. Both figures look directly toward the viewer. A hazy morning light fills the background. Subject:  Waterscape -- Boat Landscape -- United States -- West Central States Landscape -- River -- Missouri River Landscape -- Time -- Morning Figure group -- Family -- Father & Child Occupation -- Hunter -- Trapper Animal -- Bear Architecture -- Boat -- Canoe Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 5th Avenue at 82nd Street, New York, New York 10028 Accession Number: 33.61 Provenance:  Formerly in the collection of American Art-Union, New York, New York 1845. Bunker, Robert S., Mobile, Alabama du Mont, Alphonse, Mrs. (Josephine Bunker), du Mont, Lina, Point Clear, Alabama Smith, E. Herndon, New York, New York 1932. Wise, John, New York, New York 1933. References:  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975. Gardner & Feld, "American Ptgs," Metropolitan Museum, Vol. I, 1965, pg. 251-252. Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 540. Bloch, E. Maurice, "The paintings of George Caleb Bingham: a catalogue raisonne," Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986, no. 158. Truettner, William H., and Allan Wallach, eds., "Thomas Cole Landscape into History," New Haven: Yale University Press (National Museum of American Art), 1994, pg. 138. "George Caleb Bingham," Saint Louis, MO: Saint Louis Art Museum in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, 1990, pl. 33. Perry, Claire, "Young America: Childhood in 19th-Century Art and Culture," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006, pg. 167. Illustration:  Image on file. "Guide to the Metropolitan Museum of Art," New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972, pg. 18. Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 541. Bloch, E. Maurice, "The paintings of George Caleb Bingham: a catalogue raisonne," Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986, pg. xix. Truettner, William H., and Allan Wallach, eds., "Thomas Cole Landscape into History," New Haven: Yale University Press (National Museum of American Art), 1994, pg. 138. "George Caleb Bingham," Saint Louis, MO: Saint Louis Art Museum in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, 1990, pl. 33. Perry, Claire, "Young America: Childhood in 19th-Century Art and Culture," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006, pg. 167. 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 36120207   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 36120207 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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