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    Mississippi Fisherman
    George Caleb Bingham. Mississippi Fisherman, c. 1850. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00001757

    Mississippi Fisherman

    by George Caleb Bingham

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    William P. Thomas (1826–1883), Missouri, brother of George Caleb Bingham’s second wife, Eliza K. Thomas Bingham (1830–1876); by descent to his wife Martha Ann Collins Thomas (1830–1928), Lake Charles, LA; by descent to her granddaughter May Cook Caldwell (1889–1963), Lake Charles, LA; with James Graham & Sons Gallery, New York, 1961; sold to Marshall Field V, Illinois and Florida, 1963; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2021.

    Exhibition history

    Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, George Caleb Bingham 1811–1879, Oct. 79, 1967–Jan. 1, 1968, cat. 20; Cleveland Museum of Art, Jan. 14–Mar. 10, 1968; The Art Galleries, University of California at Los Angeles, Apr. 7–May 79, 7968. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The Romantic Vision in America, Oct. 9–Nov. 28, 1971, cat. 31 (ill.). Evanston, IL, Terra Museum of American Art, Life in Nineteenth–Century America, Sept. 11–Nov. 15, 1981, cat. 17. Saint Louis Art Museum, George Caleb Bingham, Feb. 22–May 13, 1990; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, July 15–Sept. 30, 1990, cat. 44. Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX, Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River, Oct. 2, 2014– Jan. 18, 2015, cat. 29; Saint Louis Museum of Art, Feb. 22–May 17, 2015; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 15–Sept. 20, 2015.

    Publications

    Maurice E. Bloch, George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (University of California Press, 1967), 80 (A206). Maurice E. Bloch, George Caleb Bingham: The Evolution of an Artist (University of California Press, 1967), 104, 106, ill. pl. 73. Maurice E. Bloch, The Paintings of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986), 191-192 (A234), ill. p. 83. Michael Edward Shapiro, et. al., George Caleb Bingham, exh. cat. (The Saint Louis Art Museum in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990), 159, 167, ill. pl. 44. Michael Edward Shapiro, George Caleb Bingham (Harry N. Abrams, in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1993), 65, 69; ill. p. 65. Nenette Luarca-Shoaf, et. al. Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River, exh. cat. (Yale University Press, 2014), 67, 85, 199; ill. pl. 29. Fred R. Kline, ed., "Mississippi Fisherman, c. 1850 (Bloch86 234)," George Caleb Bingham Catalogue Raisonné, accessed Nov. 22, 2021, https://catalogue.binghamcatalogue.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=6 (ill.).

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    George Caleb Bingham (American, 1811–1877)
    Date
    c. 1850
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    74.9 × 62.5 cm (29 1/2 × 24 5/8 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    american arts
    Place
    United States
    Department
    Arts of the Americas
    Credit line
    Gift of Jamee J. and Marshall Field
    Accession no.
    2021.225

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