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Item Ships From: Missouri
Vase "Stern" Pattern
Vase "Stern" Pattern

Vase "Stern" Pattern

By Melanie Sherman

Located in Kansas City, MO

Hand Built & Painted Vase Materials: Porcelain, Glaze, China Paint, Gold Leaf, Flocking Fired: Electric Kiln, Cone 6 This piece was part of "Go for Baroque: Opulence and Excess ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Gold Leaf

Decorative Porcelain Plate II (MADE TO ORDER)
Decorative Porcelain Plate II (MADE TO ORDER)

Decorative Porcelain Plate II (MADE TO ORDER)

By Melanie Sherman

Located in Kansas City, MO

MADE TO ORDER - LEAD TIME 4-6 WEEKS Hand Built & Painted Plate Materials: Porcelain, Glaze, China Paint, Gold Luster, Flock, Decals Fired: Electric Kiln, Cone 6 Decorative purpose o...

Category

2010s Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Luster, Porcelain, Glaze

Pura Vida
Pura Vida

Pura Vida

Located in Columbia, MO

Alexandra LeVasseur was born in Quebec in 1982. She holds a BA in Fine Arts from University of Costa Rica (2006), a post-graduate in Illustration/Communication from EINA in Barcelona...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Stoneware, Mixed Media, Oil, Wood Panel

Cold Front
Cold Front

Cold Front

Located in Columbia, MO

Joel Sager (1980) was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, the son of a minister and a stay-at-home mother who fostered from an early age his love of drawing and painting. It was under th...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Evensong
Evensong

Evensong

Located in Columbia, MO

Joel Sager (1980) was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, the son of a minister and a stay-at-home mother who fostered from an early age his love of drawing and painting. It was under th...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

"Il Mio Gatto", Contemporary, Ceramic, Figurative, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Paint
"Il Mio Gatto", Contemporary, Ceramic, Figurative, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Paint

"Il Mio Gatto", Contemporary, Ceramic, Figurative, Mixed Media, Sculpture, Paint

By Alessandro Gallo

Located in St. Louis, MO

“Animals carry strong associations that make them ideal in portraying, sometimes humorously, our basic disposition or nature. Some animals have a long cultural history while others d...

Category

2010s Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Ceramic, Stoneware, Paint, Mixed Media

Contemporary, Colored, Porcelain, Sculpture, YOR Spectrum Loop Dispersion
Contemporary, Colored, Porcelain, Sculpture, YOR Spectrum Loop Dispersion

Contemporary, Colored, Porcelain, Sculpture, YOR Spectrum Loop Dispersion

By Kyle Johns

Located in St. Louis, MO

Contemporary, Colored, Porcelain, Sculpture, YOR Spectrum Loop Dispersion Kyle began his studies at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). Following undergraduate, he rec...

Category

2010s Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Ceramic, Porcelain, Glaze, Pigment

"Incoming Dusk on the River", Contemporary, Landscape, Painting, Framed
"Incoming Dusk on the River", Contemporary, Landscape, Painting, Framed

"Incoming Dusk on the River", Contemporary, Landscape, Painting, Framed

By Ahzad Bogosian

Located in St. Louis, MO

"Incoming Dusk on the River", Contemporary, Landscape, Painting, Framed Channeling the Midwest and Western landscapes as sources for his mood-rich paintings, Bogosian has developed ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Acrylic

Kick Start
Kick Start

Kick Start

By Hassan Hajjaj

Located in Saint Louis, MO

With his multimedia portraits, Moroccan artist Hassan Hajjaj thrives in a space between cultures, traditions, mediums, and artistic movements. The subjects of his photography range f...

Category

Early 2000s Missouri - Art

Materials

Wood, Lambda

Contemporary Porcelain Bowl with Glaze, Glass Detail, Anatomical, Insect, Nature
Contemporary Porcelain Bowl with Glaze, Glass Detail, Anatomical, Insect, Nature

Contemporary Porcelain Bowl with Glaze, Glass Detail, Anatomical, Insect, Nature

By Bonnie Seeman

Located in St. Louis, MO

Contemporary Porcelain Bowl with Glaze, Glass Detail, Anatomical, Insect, Nature Bonnie Seeman grew up in Miami, Florida with a propensity towards anatomy illustration and the dazzl...

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Ceramic, Clay, Porcelain, Glass, Glaze, Mixed Media, Other Medium

"MD05", Contemporary, Ceramic, Sculpture, Abstract, Design, Vessel Form, Glaze
"MD05", Contemporary, Ceramic, Sculpture, Abstract, Design, Vessel Form, Glaze

"MD05", Contemporary, Ceramic, Sculpture, Abstract, Design, Vessel Form, Glaze

Located in St. Louis, MO

José Sierra is a self-taught artist and ceramicist, born in Mérida, Venezuela in 1975. His work draws inspiration from his heritage, along with pre-Hispanic art, East Asian pottery,...

Category

2010s Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Ceramic, Stoneware, Glaze

Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Marble Base, Brass Rod, Mixed Media, Feathers
Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Marble Base, Brass Rod, Mixed Media, Feathers

Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Marble Base, Brass Rod, Mixed Media, Feathers

By Lindsay Pichaske

Located in St. Louis, MO

Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture, Marble Base, Brass Rod, Mixed Media, Feathers Since graduating from the University of Colorado in 2010, Pichaske has risen to attention in the art wo...

Category

2010s Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Marble, Brass

Shere Mill Pond
Shere Mill Pond

Shere Mill Pond

By Sir Francis Seymour Haden, R.A.

Located in Missouri, MO

Shere Mill Pond, No. II (large plate). 1860. Etching and drypoint. Schneiderman 37.v/ix. 7 x 13 1/8 (sheet 10 3/4 x 16 3/8). This state is prior to publication in Études à l'Eau-Forte. Illustrated: Keppel The Golden Age of Engraving; Print Collector's Quarterly 1 (1911): 18; : Guichard, British Etchers, 1850-1940. A rich, brilliant proof with drypoint burr printed on white laid paper. Signed in pencil. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shere Mill Pond, No. II was one of the most highly praised landscape prints of the etching revival. An impression was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1861 under Haden’s pseudonym, H. Dean. Francis Seymour Haden used this anagram of his own name early in his career as an artist, in order to retain his anonymity and preserve his professional reputation as a surgeon. Biography: Sir Francis Seymour Haden (16 September 1818 - 1 June 1910), was an English surgeon, best known as an etcher. He was born in London, his father, Charles Thomas Haden, being a well-known doctor and lover of music. He was educated at Derby School, Christ's Hospital, and University College, London, and also studied at the Sorbonne, Paris, where he took his degree in 1840. He was admitted as a member of the College of Surgeons in London in 1842. In 1843-1844, with his friends Duval, Le Cannes and Colonel Guibout, he travelled in Italy and made his first sketches from nature. Haden attended no art school and had no art teachers, but between 1845 and 1848 he studied portfolios of prints belonging to a second-hand dealer named Love, who had a shop in Bunhill Row, the old Quaker quarter of London. Arranging the prints in chronological order, he studied the works of the great original engravers, Albrecht Dürer, Lucas van Leyden and Rembrandt. These studies, besides influencing his original work, led to his important monograph on the etched work of Rembrandt. By lecture and book, and with the aid of the memorable exhibition at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1877, he tried to give a true reflection of Rembrandt's work, giving a nobler idea of the master's mind by taking away from the list of his works many dull and unseemly plates that had long been included in the lists. His reasons were founded upon the results of a study of the master's works in chronological order, and are clearly expressed in his monograph, The Etched Work of Rembrandt critically reconsidered, privately printed in 1877, and in The Etched Work of Rembrandt True and False (1895). Haden's printmaking was invigorated by his much younger brother-in-law, James Whistler, at the Haden home in Sloane Street in 1855. A press was installed there and for a while Haden and Whistler collaborated on a series of etchings of the Thames. The relationship and project did not last. Haden followed the art of original etching with such vigour that he became not only the foremost British exponent of that art but brought about its revival in England. His strenuous efforts and perseverance, aided by the secretarial ability of Sir WR Drake, resulted in the foundation of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers. As president he ruled the society with a strong hand from its first beginnings in 1880. Notwithstanding his study of the old masters of his art, Haden's own plates were very individual, and are particularly noticeable for a fine original treatment of landscape subjects, free and open in line, clear and well divided in mass, and full of a noble and dignified style of his own. Even when working from a picture his personality dominates the plate, as for example in the large plate he etched after J.M.W. Turner's "Calais Pier," which is a classical example of what interpretative work can do in black and white. Of his original plates, more than 250 in number, one of the most notable was the large "Breaking up of the Agamemnon." An early plate, rare and most beautiful, is "Thames Fisherman". "Mytton Hall" is broad in treatment, and a fine rendering of a shady avenue of yew trees leading to an old manor-house in sunlight. "Sub Tegmine" was etched in Greenwich Park in 1859; and "Early Morning--Richmond", full of the poetry and freshness of the hour, was done, according to Haden, actually at sunrise. One of the rarest and most beautiful of his plates is "A By-Road in Tipperary"; "Combe Bottom" is another; and "Shere Mill Pond" (both the small study and the larger plate), "Sunset in Ireland," "Penton Hook," "Grim Spain" and "Evening Fishing, Longparish," are also notable examples of his genius. A catalogue of his works was begun by Sir William Drake and completed by Harrington in 1880. During later years Haden began to practise the sister art...

Category

Late 19th Century Old Masters Missouri - Art

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

Chapel of the Agricultural School, Chapingo (Ceiling Detail, Workers)
Chapel of the Agricultural School, Chapingo (Ceiling Detail, Workers)

Chapel of the Agricultural School, Chapingo (Ceiling Detail, Workers)

By (after) Diego Rivera

Located in Missouri, MO

(after) Diego Rivera "Chapel of the Agricultural School, Chapingo" (Ceiling Detail, Workers) 1933 from the portfolio "Frescoes of Diego Rivera" Published by the Museum of Modern Art, NY Size with the Matt: 18.5 x 13.5 inches Hand-Signed by the Artist Diego Rivera was born on December 13, 1886 in the mountain town of Guanajuato in Mexico. His mother was an ardent Catholic and his father was a rich and aristocratic revolutionary fighter and an atheist. Little Diego decided in favor of atheism. He swore his family had to leave Guanajuato when he was six because of his diatribes against the Church. When he was eleven he attended the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts; his real teacher was Jose Posada...

Category

1930s Modern Missouri - Art

Materials

Lithograph

Khnum
Khnum

Khnum

Located in Columbia, MO

John Selburg was born and raised in Peoria, Illinois. He holds a BFA from Bradley University (2006) and an MFA from the University of Missouri-Columbia (2009). He is Associate Profes...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Charcoal, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Echinacea awakenings (thank you for healing me)
Echinacea awakenings (thank you for healing me)

Echinacea awakenings (thank you for healing me)

Located in Columbia, MO

Jennifer Belair Sakarian holds a BFA (2010) from Siena Heights University (Michigan) with concentration in printmaking and art history. Her MFA is from Wayne State University (2013)....

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Mixed Media

dot pool screen

dot pool screen

By Kristen Martincic

Located in Columbia, MO

Kristen Martincic earned her BFA from Bowling Green State University and her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The artist, who currently lives and works in Columbia, Misso...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Woodcut, Birch, Acrylic

exit lanes

exit lanes

By Kristen Martincic

Located in Columbia, MO

Kristen Martincic earned her BFA from Bowling Green State University and her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The artist, who currently lives and works in Columbia, Misso...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Birch, Acrylic, Woodcut

large dot chakra suit

large dot chakra suit

By Kristen Martincic

Located in Columbia, MO

Kristen Martincic earned her BFA from Bowling Green State University and her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The artist, who currently lives and works in Columbia, Misso...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Thread, Archival Ink, Handmade Paper, Monotype

marigold wide band sheer suit

marigold wide band sheer suit

By Kristen Martincic

Located in Columbia, MO

Kristen Martincic earned her BFA from Bowling Green State University and her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The artist, who currently lives and works in Columbia, Misso...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Thread, Archival Ink, Handmade Paper, Monotype

silver graphite double V suit

silver graphite double V suit

By Kristen Martincic

Located in Columbia, MO

Kristen Martincic earned her BFA from Bowling Green State University and her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The artist, who currently lives and works in Columbia, Misso...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Thread, Archival Ink, Handmade Paper, Monotype

V-neck pin-stripe skin suit

V-neck pin-stripe skin suit

By Kristen Martincic

Located in Columbia, MO

Kristen Martincic earned her BFA from Bowling Green State University and her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The artist, who currently lives and works in Columbia, Misso...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Thread, Archival Ink, Handmade Paper, Monotype

midway & wave

midway & wave

By Kristen Martincic

Located in Columbia, MO

Kristen Martincic earned her BFA from Bowling Green State University and her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The artist, who currently lives and works in Columbia, Misso...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Birch, Acrylic, Woodcut

pearl lane

pearl lane

By Kristen Martincic

Located in Columbia, MO

Kristen Martincic earned her BFA from Bowling Green State University and her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The artist, who currently lives and works in Columbia, Misso...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Birch, Acrylic, Woodcut

pool ground & yellow

pool ground & yellow

By Kristen Martincic

Located in Columbia, MO

Kristen Martincic earned her BFA from Bowling Green State University and her MFA from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The artist, who currently lives and works in Columbia, Misso...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Birch, Acrylic, Woodcut

Staircase of Shadowz

Staircase of Shadowz

Located in Columbia, MO

Metra Mitchell holds a BFA in Painting and minor in Art History from Western Kentucky University and an MFA in Painting from Fontbonne University. She has taught studio and art histo...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Nyctophiles

Nyctophiles

Located in Columbia, MO

Metra Mitchell holds a BFA in Painting and minor in Art History from Western Kentucky University and an MFA in Painting from Fontbonne University. She has taught studio and art histo...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Cherry the Florist

Cherry the Florist

Located in Columbia, MO

Metra Mitchell holds a BFA in Painting and minor in Art History from Western Kentucky University and an MFA in Painting from Fontbonne University. She has taught studio and art histo...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Night in the Desert
Night in the Desert

Night in the Desert

Located in Columbia, MO

Jo Stealey is a full-time studio artist, Professor Emerita, former Chair of the Department of Art, and founding Director for the School of Visual Studies at the University of Missour...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Thread, Paint, Handmade Paper

Man in the Desert
Man in the Desert

Man in the Desert

Located in Columbia, MO

Jo Stealey is a full-time studio artist, Professor Emerita, former Chair of the Department of Art, and founding Director for the School of Visual Studies at the University of Missour...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Thread, Paint, Handmade Paper

Lovers at the Beach
Lovers at the Beach

Lovers at the Beach

Located in Columbia, MO

Jo Stealey is a full-time studio artist, Professor Emerita, former Chair of the Department of Art, and founding Director for the School of Visual Studies at the University of Missour...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Thread, Paint, Handmade Paper

Small Works F

Small Works F

Located in Columbia, MO

Renowned career illustrator Stephen Gammell now devotes his energy to a full-time studio practice, and we’re honored to bring the current work of an artist who, with dozens of public...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Missouri - Art

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Wood Panel, Archival Paper

Small Works A

Small Works A

Located in Columbia, MO

Renowned career illustrator Stephen Gammell now devotes his energy to a full-time studio practice, and we’re honored to bring the current work of an artist who, with dozens of public...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Missouri - Art

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Wood Panel, Archival Paper

Two, Maybe Three Times a Day

Two, Maybe Three Times a Day

By Josh George

Located in Columbia, MO

A native of Kansas City, Josh George completed his BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute (1997), followed by an influential session at The Illustration Academy. His exhibitions and pu...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil

Strafing Fun Run

Strafing Fun Run

By Josh George

Located in Columbia, MO

A native of Kansas City, Josh George completed his BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute (1997), followed by an influential session at The Illustration Academy. His exhibitions and pu...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil

Four Engine Heavy

Four Engine Heavy

By Josh George

Located in Columbia, MO

A native of Kansas City, Josh George completed his BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute (1997), followed by an influential session at The Illustration Academy. His exhibitions and pu...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil

Bareheaded

Bareheaded

Located in Columbia, MO

Joel D. Sager (b. 1980) is a contemporary American painter of landscapes, still-life and portraiture. Often drawing on such standard subject matter with economy and singularity— a so...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Graphite

Work Boots

Work Boots

Located in Columbia, MO

Joel D. Sager (b. 1980) is a contemporary American painter of landscapes, still-life and portraiture. Often drawing on such standard subject matter with economy and singularity— a so...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Graphite

A Week of Coffee
A Week of Coffee

A Week of Coffee

By Tom Pfannerstill

Located in Columbia, MO

Thomas Pfannerstill has worked as a full-time studio artist since 1986, following his education at Western Kentucky University (BFA 1975). He currently resides and works in Louisvill...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Missouri - Art

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

"MD06", Contemporary, Ceramic, Abstract, Sculpture, Stoneware, Glaze, Design
"MD06", Contemporary, Ceramic, Abstract, Sculpture, Stoneware, Glaze, Design

"MD06", Contemporary, Ceramic, Abstract, Sculpture, Stoneware, Glaze, Design

Located in St. Louis, MO

José Sierra is a self-taught artist and ceramicist, born in Mérida, Venezuela in 1975. His work draws inspiration from his heritage, along with pre-Hispanic art, East Asian pottery,...

Category

2010s Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Ceramic, Stoneware, Glaze

"Crystallized #2", Abstract Ceramic Sculpture with Mother of Pearl, Porcelain
"Crystallized #2", Abstract Ceramic Sculpture with Mother of Pearl, Porcelain

"Crystallized #2", Abstract Ceramic Sculpture with Mother of Pearl, Porcelain

Located in St. Louis, MO

“My work reflects on experiences of transformation, alchemy and the sublime, manifesting in sculptures that undulate between soft and hard, alive and static, real and imagined. These...

Category

2010s Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Ceramic, Porcelain, Glaze

"New Year's Greeting", Figurative Porcelain Sculpture with Dynamic Composition
"New Year's Greeting", Figurative Porcelain Sculpture with Dynamic Composition

"New Year's Greeting", Figurative Porcelain Sculpture with Dynamic Composition

By SunKoo Yuh

Located in St. Louis, MO

The ceramic sculptures of SunKoo Yuh are composed of tight groupings of various forms including plants, animals, fish, and human figures. While Korean art, Buddhism, and Confucian be...

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Ceramic, Clay, Porcelain, Glaze

Chien Braque (Tom)
Chien Braque (Tom)

Chien Braque (Tom)

By Pierre Jules Mêne

Located in Missouri, MO

Pierre Jules Mene "Chien Braque" (Tom) Bronze approx. 5 x 9 x 4.25 Signed PIERRE JULES MENE (1810-1879) Pierre Jules Mene, (P. J. Mene), was born in Pa...

Category

1860s Realist Missouri - Art

Materials

Bronze

Homestead
Homestead

Homestead

By Joan Parker

Located in Missouri, MO

Joan Parker (20th C.) "Homestead" Oil on Canvas 11 x 14 inches 13 x 16 framed Joan Parker, is a Plein Air landscape painter and a native of California. Her artistic abilities were...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Missouri - Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Returning from the General Store
Returning from the General Store

Returning from the General Store

By William Henry Dethlef Koerner

Located in Missouri, MO

Returning from the General Store William Henry Dethlef Koerner (German, American, 1878-1938) Oil on Panel Signed Lower Right 24 x 30 inches 27 x 33 inches with frame William Henry D...

Category

Early 20th Century American Modern Missouri - Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture with Brilliant Yellow Surface, Design, Mustardo
Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture with Brilliant Yellow Surface, Design, Mustardo

Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture with Brilliant Yellow Surface, Design, Mustardo

By Maxwell Mustardo

Located in St. Louis, MO

Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture with Brilliant Yellow Surface, Design, Mustardo Maxwell Mustardo is a ceramic artist whose highly textured forms are the result of meticulous research...

Category

2010s Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Ceramic, Stoneware, Plastic

Contemporary, Porcelain, Sculpture, Pigment, B2Y Spectrum Loop Dispersion
Contemporary, Porcelain, Sculpture, Pigment, B2Y Spectrum Loop Dispersion

Contemporary, Porcelain, Sculpture, Pigment, B2Y Spectrum Loop Dispersion

By Kyle Johns

Located in St. Louis, MO

Contemporary, Porcelain, Sculpture, Pigment, B2Y Spectrum Loop Dispersion Kyle began his studies at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE). Following undergraduate, he rec...

Category

2010s Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Ceramic, Porcelain, Glaze, Pigment

The Jolly Flat Boat Men
The Jolly Flat Boat Men

The Jolly Flat Boat Men

By George Caleb Bingham

Located in Missouri, MO

The Jolly Flat Boat Men, 1847 After George Caleb Bingham (American, 1811-1879) Engraved by Thomas Doney (French, active New York 1844-1849) Engraving with Hand-Coloring Published by The American Art-Union, New York (1838-1851) Printed by Powell and Co. 18 x 24 inches 32 x 38 inches with frame In 1847, the American Art-Union purchased Bingham’s painting "The Jolly Flat Boat Men" (1846; National Gallery of Art) directly from the artist. The subscription-based organization, founded in 1838 as the Apollo Association, boasted nearly ten-thousand members at this date. For an annual fee of five dollars, each received a large reproductive engraving and was entered in a lottery to win original artworks exhibited at the Art-Union’s Free Gallery. Aimed at educating the public about contemporary American art, the organization developed an impressive distribution network that reached members in every state. The broad circulation of the Art-Union's print helped to establish Bingham's reputation and made his river scene famous. 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 completed in several versions in 1846. This 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 inn keepers 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 1827, when his son was sixteen 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 portraitists 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. Bingham recalled that watching Harding with the Boone portrait was a lasting inspiration and that it was the first time he had ever seen a painting in progress. Harding suggested to Bingham that he begin doing portraiture by finding subjects in the river men, which, of course, opened the subject matter that established fame and financial success for Bingham. Harding also encouraged Bingham to copy with paint engravings. He later painted two portraits of Boone but, contrary to the assertions of some scholars, he did not do Boone portraits in the company of Harding. Bingham's portraits of Boone are not located, but one of them, a wood signboard for a hotel in Boonville circa 1828 to 1830, showed a likeness of Boone in buckskin dress...

Category

1840s Hudson River School Missouri - Art

Materials

Engraving

Grasslands II
Grasslands II

Grasslands II

By Jenn Williamson

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
The intuitive nature of my personality flows over into my art practice. It is essential for me to paint without reference materials or a preconceived outcome. Art has healed me and brought so much joy and peace into my life. I am fascinated with clouds, fog, mist, rays of sunlight, mountains, trees, sunsets, marshlands, rolling pastures, moody skies. Through my paintings, I seek to create images that bring peace and inspire hope.

About the Artist
Jenn Williamson expertly evokes the scenery of British Columbia in her soft abstract landscapes. She utilizes defining horizontal and vertical strokes, coupled with a skillful handling of color, to create significant depth in each piece. Her paintings, though abstracted, clearly convey the atmospheric attributes of the scene–rain, wind, clouds, fog. Jenn’s muted color palette transports the viewer to the Canadian west coast...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Missouri - Art

Materials

Acrylic

Flag with Heart on Blends
Flag with Heart on Blends

Flag with Heart on Blends

By Peter Max

Located in Missouri, MO

Peter Max (German, b. 1937) Flag with Heart on Blends Signed Lower Right 16.25 x 12 inches 31 x 26.5 inches with frame Peter Max, born Peter Max Finkelstein, is a multi-dimensional...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Missouri - Art

Materials

Acrylic, Lithograph

The Love Letter

The Love Letter

Located in Columbia, MO

Ashlee Selburg (American, b. 1989) Ashlee Selburg is a multidisciplinary artist whose ink drawings and paintings are characterized by whimsical narratives, imaginative scenarios, and...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Missouri - Art

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

Prophesying War

Prophesying War

Located in Columbia, MO

Hannah Reeves (American, b. 1981) Hannah Reeves is a Missouri native and holds an MFA in fibers from the University of Missouri. Her work explores themes of memory and the passage of...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Missouri - Art

Materials

Fabric, Thread, Acrylic

Beneath a Waning Moon

Beneath a Waning Moon

Located in Columbia, MO

Hannah Reeves (American, b. 1981) Hannah Reeves is a Missouri native and holds an MFA in fibers from the University of Missouri. Her work explores themes of memory and the passage of...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Missouri - Art

Materials

Acrylic, Fabric, Thread

Time to Sweep

Time to Sweep

Located in Columbia, MO

Grace Ramsey (American, b. 1985) Grace Ramsey is a self-taught painter based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before establishing herself as a visual artist, she spent over a decade as ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Oil

Leftovers No. 2

Leftovers No. 2

Located in Columbia, MO

Grace Ramsey (American, b. 1985) Grace Ramsey is a self-taught painter based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Before establishing herself as a visual artist, she spent over a decade as ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Oil Crayon

Grasp
Grasp

Grasp

Located in Columbia, MO

Grasp 2024 Pencil on Fabiano Tiepolo 9.75 x 12 inches Framed: 16.5 x 19 x 1 inches

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Pencil

Connection
Connection

Connection

Located in Columbia, MO

Connection 2024 Pencil on Fabiano Tiepolo 9.75 x 12 inches Framed: 16.5 x 19 x 1 inches

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Missouri - Art

Materials

Pencil