Item #0881
454 p.; small 4to; cloth in brown d.j.; b&w reproductions of paintings and sketches. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959. First Edition. George Caleb Bingham has come to be one of the most admired painters of American life, largely because of three massive canvases done in the 1840s entitled, County Election, The Emigration of Daniel Boone, and The Verdict of the People.
He could scarcely have escaped being notable as an artist because of the scores of portraits he painted, mainly in St. Louis and Washington, between 1833 and 1844. For, almost untutored in art, he created his own admirable style. But what has not been known about him, aside from the canvases noted above, is his vast command of river life in and about St. Louis, best revealed in 112 genre drawings in crayon, preserved by the St. Louis Mercantile Library and here reproduced in their entirety for the first time. Jacket slightly chipped; fine in near fine jacket.
