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Feb 26 2011
Fur Traders Descending the Missouri, George Caleb Bingham, 1845
American / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “Fur Traders Descending the Missouri” of 1845 by George Caleb Bingham. The American artist George Bingham was thirty-four when he created this masterpiece. He was born in Augusta County, Virginia. The family moved to Missouri and Bingham’s father died when he was twelve. Seven years later he was painting portraits for twenty dollars each. He continued to paint and grew a practice in St. Louis where he was elected to the Missouri General Assembly in 1848. He moved to Europe in 1856. He returned to Missouri in time for the Civil War during which he served as State Treasurer. He became the first professor of art at the University of Missouri before his death on July 7, 1789. The original painting is 28.9 by 36.6 inches and is currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
Feb 25 2011
The Beeches, Asher Durand, 1845
Academician / American / Landscape / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This is a reproduction of “The Beeches” of 1845 by Asher Brown Durant. This American artist of the Hudson River School was born in 1796. By the time he was twenty-seven he had a reputation as one of the nation’s finest engravers. Encouraged by a patron, he began to paint in 1830 and within seven years he was focusing on landscapes with his friend Thomas Cole. They and others embarked in the creation of the Hudson River School which believed that Nature is the ineffable manifestation of God. Durand died at the age of ninety. The original painting is 60 3/8 x 48 1/8 inches and is currently at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
Jan 25 2011
The Girl I Left Behind Me by Eastman Johnson, 1875
Academician / American / Paintings (Reproductions) - 1 year ago - troycapc
This a reproduction of Eastman Johnson’s “The Girl I Left Behind Me” of 1875. Johnson produced this masterpiece when he was 51 years old. He was born into a prominent family in Maine and moved with his family to Washington in 1840 when he was apprenticed to a lithographer. Nine years later he was studying in Dusseldorf, Germany. He continued his studies in the Netherlands and Paris before returning to America in 1855. Four years later he established his studio in New York City. He was a co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1870 and became famous as the American Rembrandt due to his style and having studied in the Netherlands. He died on April 5, 1906. This masterpiece is at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D. C.
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