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George Caleb Bingham Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 George Caleb Bingham at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri
Canvassing for a Vote, 1852 (Zoom)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. NEW!
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
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
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
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
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago NEW!
The County Election, 1854
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
(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 at The Art Renewal Center
George Caleb Bingham at The Artchive
George Caleb Bingham in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German) 
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
George Caleb Bingham at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
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 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
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)
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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George Caleb Bingham: Missouri's Famed Painter And Forgotten Politician
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