George Caleb Bingham Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio
Portrait of James Harrison Cravens, 1842
George Caleb Bingham at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 works online
George Caleb Bingham at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Canvassing for a Vote, 1852 (Zoom)
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Order No. 11
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Landscape with Fisherman, 1850
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
John R. Griffin, ca.1860
Hunter Museum of American Art, Tennessee
Elizabeth Carpenter Griffin, ca.1860
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Watching the Cargo by Night, 1854
George Caleb Bingham in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
Rachel Spears Johnston
Captain William Johnston
George Caleb Bingham at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C.
Portrait of John Quincy Adams
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Jolly Flatboatmen in Port, 1857
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago
The Jolly Flatboatmen, 1877-78
The Huntington Library, California
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
George Caleb Bingham in the Art Renewal Center
George Caleb Bingham in the Artchive
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
George Caleb Bingham at CGFA
George Caleb Bingham in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German) 
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California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
The History Project at U.C. Davis
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Miscellaneous Sites:
George Caleb Bingham - Artist of Missouri and the American Frontier
Online supplement to the Bingham Catalogue Raisonne. The catalogue itself is not online, but there are many images, including several recent additions to the catalogue.
The Western hero: Visions and Revisions
Why We Think Nature is Beautiful
Illustrated article by Eugene C. Hargrove
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on George Caleb Bingham 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
"George Caleb Bingham and Thomas Hart Benton: Pioneering Art in the Midwest" (2005)
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
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George Caleb Bingham: Missouri's Famed Painter And Forgotten Politician
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