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TITLE: PAINTING - Fur Traders Descending the Missouri - 19TH CENTURY

DESCRIPTION: BINGHAM. LUMINIST. Example of luminist tradition. bRIGHT SKY AND WATER SO AS TO OBLITERATE HORIZON LINE. Important c/o favorite of American collectors. Genre painter of Missouri. Sign painter. Itinerant portrait painter. Returned to Mo. and sent scenes of life on river to NY and sold all. Became State Treasurer of Mo and started painting political scenes. Only painted men. Never painted anyone working. Black cat is said to be his SOCIAL COMMENTARY on slavery as an evil thing.