A new look at George Caleb Bingham's iconic river paintings and his creative process in making them George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) moved to Missouri as a chil

George Caleb Bingham, who earned the sobriquet of "the Missouri artist," evolved from a locally known portrait painter to an artist of national renown. His lett

The author views Bingham's art in the context of the political milieu in Missouri. The paintings show "other associations and deeper levels of meaning." She pro

American genre painting flourished in the thirty years before the Civil War, a period of rapid social change that followed the election of President Andrew Jack