Links and Resources

In Print

Books

Bloch, E. Maurice. The Painting of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1986.

Gentzler, Lynn Wolf, ed., “But I forget that I am a painter and not a politician”: The Letters of George Caleb Bingham. Columbia: State Historical Society of Missouri; Arrow Rock, Mo.: Friends of Arrow Rock, 2011.

Nagel, Paul C. George Caleb Bingham: Missouri’s Famed Painter and Forgotten Politician. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press – Missouri Heritage Readers, 2005.

Rash Nancy. The Painting and Politics of George Caleb Bingham. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1991.

Shapiro, Mark Edward. George Caleb Bingham. New York and Washington, D.C.: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1993.

Articles

Casper, Scott. “Politics, Art, and the Contradictions of a Market Culture: George Caleb Bingham’s ‘Stump Speaking.’.” American Art 5.3 (1991): 26-.

Conrads, Margaret C. “Bingham@200: A Bicentennial Celebration.” Antiques & Fine Art (2011), http://www.antiquesandfineart.com/articles/article.cfm?request=1008 .

Fort, Megan Holloway. “Creating an Icon of American art.” The Magazine Antiques (Dec. 2007): 18-.

Husch, Gail E. “George Caleb Bingham’s County Election: Whig Tribute to the Will of the People.” American Art Journal 19:4 (Autumn 1987): 4-19.

Klinkenborg, Verlyn. “His art brought us face-to-face with our land and ourselves.” Smithsonian (Mar. 1990): 42-.

Lubin, David N. “Bingham’s Boone.” In Picturing a Nation: Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994.

Miller, Angela. “The Mechanisms of the Market and the Invention of Western Regionalism: The Example of George Caleb Bingham.“ Oxford Art Journal 15:1, Manifest Destiny (1992): 3-20

Novak, Barbara. “George Caleb Bingham.” In American Painting of the Nineteenth Century: Realism, Idealism, and the American Experience. [3rd ed.] New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Rash, Nancy. “George Caleb Bingham’s Lighter Revealing a Steamboat Aground.” Smithsonian Studies in American Art 2:2 (Spring 1988): 17-31.

Reiger, Nelson A. “Odyssey to an Authentication: A George Caleb Bingham Colorado Landscape.” Missouri Historical Review 85:3 (April 1991): 237-263.

Wallach, Alan. “Regionalism Redux.” American Quarterly 43.2 (1991): 259-.

Weinberg, Jonathan. “The Artist and the Politician.” Art in America (Oct. 2000): 138-.

On the Internet

“Bingham@200”, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, http://www.nelson-atkins.org/art/Exhibitions.cfm?id=115

“A Centennial Salute to George Caleb Bingham, 1898-1998” by Sidney Larson, The State Historical Society of Missouri, 1998, http://shs.umsystem.edu/art/bingham /

George Caleb Bingham (1811 – 1879) by Sidney Larson, Christine Montgomery, Joan Stack, and Carlynn Trout, http://shs.umsystem.edu/historicmissourians/artists/bingham/index.html  

“George Caleb Bingham in Arrow Rock,” The Village of Arrow Rock, http://www.arrowrock.org/georgecalebbingham.php

George Caleb Bingham Collection, Saint Louis Art Museum, http://www.slam.org/emuseum/code/emuseum.asp?style=Browse&currentrecord=1&quicksearch=bingham  

“George Caleb Bingham’s Missouri” by Michael Dickey, Arrow Rock State Historic Site http://www.friendsofarrowrock.org/images/binghamsmo.pdf

“George Caleb Bingham: The Making of The County Election,” Saint Louis Art Museum, http://www.slam.org/bingham/

Portraits by George Caleb Bingham, The State Historical Society of Missouri, http://shs.umsystem.edu/art/bingham/binghamport.shtml

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