
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001757Mississippi Fisherman
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.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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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