Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio Portrait of James Harrison Cravens, 1842
George Caleb Bingham at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Boatmen on the Missouri, 1846 Country Politician, 1849
George Caleb Bingham at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, 1845 (Zoom)
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 NEW!
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio (You may need to click "I accept these terms") 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
George Caleb Bingham in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap, 1851-52
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 Institution 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)
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 
Artyzm
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 
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 NEW! 
Web Sites Dedicated to the Artist:
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.
Miscellaneous Sites:
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 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
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
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW! 
"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. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon. | |
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 George Caleb Bingham: Missouri's Famed Painter And Forgotten Politician
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