Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco M. H. de Young Memorial Museum Golden Gate Park San Francisco California 94118 Accession Number: 1979.7.15
Date:
1846
Notes:
Richardson, Edgar Preston, "American Art, A Narrative and Critical Catalog: an exhibition from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd," San Francisco, CA: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1976.
Burgard, Timothy Anglin, ed., "Masterworks of American Painting at the de Young," San Francisco, CA: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2005, pg. 87.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco collection printout, 2007.
Bloch, E. Maurice, "George Caleb Bingham," Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.
Bloch, E. Maurice, "The paintings of George Caleb Bingham: a catalogue raisonne," Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986, no. 174.
"George Caleb Bingham," Saint Louis, MO: Saint Louis Art Museum in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, 1990, pl. 38.
Image on file.
American Art Review (July-Aug. 1976): pg. 84.
Burgard, Timothy Anglin, ed., "Masterworks of American Painting at the de Young," San Francisco, CA: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2005, pg. 87.
Bloch, "George Caleb Bingham," Berkeley, 1967, Pl. 51
Bloch, E. Maurice, "The paintings of George Caleb Bingham: a catalogue raisonne," Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986, pg. xx.
"George Caleb Bingham," Saint Louis, MO: Saint Louis Art Museum in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Publishers, 1990, pl. 38.
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Summary:
River scene depicting three boatmen on flat-bottom boat traveling down the Missouri River, the boat piled high with chopped wooden logs. Two of the men are casually seated at one end of the boat, their attention directed out toward the viewer, one seated on the log pile, and one seated on a wooden plank, his arms wrapped around his bent right leg. In the back of the boat, the third figure leans over to scoop up a shovelful of wood chips.
