Hudson River School Art

George Caleb Bingham (1811 - 1879) The Jolly Flatboatmen, 1846 Engraving on paper Sheet 23 x 26 1/2 inches Inscription below image left and right corners reads: "Painted by G.C. Bingham, esq," "Engraved by T. Doney," "Printed by Powell and co." Published by the American Art Union, New York. Provenance: Saunders Fine Art, Stone Mountain, Geogia Dr. Mark C. Wood Thomasville Cultural Center, Thomasville, Georgia (gifted to from the above in 1991) Born in Augusta County, Virginia in the Shenandoah River Valley, George Caleb Bingham became known for classically rendered western genre, especially Missouri and Mississippi River scenes of boatmen bringing cargo to the American West and politicians seeking to influence frontier life. One of his most famous river genre paintings was The Jolly Flatboatmen, 1846. The first version of this painting is in the Manoogian Collection at the National Gallery of Art. Fame resulted for this work when it was exhibited in New York at the American Art Union, whose organizers made an engraving of 10,000 copies and distributed it to all of their members. Paintings such as Country Politician (1849) and County Election (1852) and Stump Speaking (1854) reflected Bingham's political interests. In 1819, as an eight-year old, he moved to Boon's Lick, Missouri with his parents and grandfather who had been farmers and millers in the Shenandoah Valley near Rockingham, Virginia. Reportedly as a child there, he took every opportunity to escape supervision to travel the River and watch the marine activity. His father died in 1823, when his son was 12 years old. His mother had encouraged his art talent, but art lessons were not easily obtainable. In order to earn money, he apprenticed to a cabinet maker but determined to become an artist. By 1835, he had a modest reputation as a frontier painter and successfully charged twenty dollars per portrait in St. Louis. "His portraits had become standard decorations in prosperous Missouri homes." (Samuels 46). In 1836, he moved to Natchez, Mississippi and there had the same kind of career, only was able to charge forty dollars per portrait. He remained largely self taught until 1837, when he, age 26 and using the proceeds from his portraiture, studied several months at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He later said that he learned much of his atmospheric style and classically balanced composition by copying paintings in collections in St. Louis and Philadelphia and that among his most admired painters were Thomas Cole, John Vanderlyn, and William Sidney Mount. Between 1856 and 1859, Bingham traveled back and forth to Dusseldorf, Germany, where he studied the work of genre painters. Some critics think these influences were negative on his work because during that time period, he abandoned his luminist style that had brought him so much public affirmation. Bingham credited Chester Harding (1792-1866) as being the earliest and one of the most lasting influences on his work. Harding, a leading portraitist when Bingham was a young man, had a studio in Franklin, near Bingham's home town. In 1822, when Bingham was ten years old, he watched Harding finish a portrait of Daniel Boone...

Oil on board, signed lower right. Presented in what is likely the original frame. Provenance: The Patricia Weiner Gallery, private Midwest Collection. Measures 10" x 15" painting and with frame 20" x 25.75" (March 31, 1823 – June 17, 1894), was a Scottish-born American landscape and cattle painter, and Hudson River School artist. His younger brother, James McDougal Hart, and his younger sister, Julie Hart Beers, were also Hudson River School artists...

Signed lower right: Sonntag

Antique original Hudson River School landscape oil painting by Charles Parmelee Rising (1859 - 1920). Oil on board, circa 1890. Signed. Image size...

A charming antique American Hudson River School painting, monogrammed "JW" and titled "New York Harbor" on the reverse. The work comes housed in a simple yet elegant frame presentat...

Hudson River School style encaustic landscape painting of a green country field with an expansive soft teal, light green and light yellow sky Untitled I, painted by Leigh Palmer in 2...

Signed lower right: Sonntag

August in the Country-The Seashore Wood engraving, 1859 Signed in the block (see photo) Published in Harper's Weekly, August 27, 1859 Condition: Usual vintage condition with folds, c...

Deer Stalking in the Adirondacks in Winter Wood engraving, 1871 Signed in the block (see photo) Published in: Every Saturday, Jan. 21, 1871 Engraved by G. A. Avery Exhibited: Indianapolis Museum of Art, Nov. 25 to Jan. 26, 1981 and later throughout Indiana on the S.T.E.P. traveling exhibition. (This impression) Reference: Beam 188 Goodrich 54 Provenance: Roman Radecki, Sr., South Bend...

Monogrammed lower right: ATB

Antique American impressionist seascape painting by John Bunyan Bristol (1826 - 1909). Oil on board, circa 1880. Unsigned. Displayed in a period giltwood frame. Image size, 16"L x 1...

A beautiful antique American Hudson River School painting depicting a waterfall in the early morning. This 19th Century painting comes housed in its original antique frame.