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George Caleb Bingham: Lighter Relieving a Steamboat Aground  wikidata:Q28796018 reasonator:Q28796018
Artist
George Caleb Bingham  (1811–1879)  wikidata:Q598030
 
George Caleb Bingham
Alternative names
G. C. Bingham; George Bingham
Description American painter, university teacher, politician, graphic artist and architectural draftsperson
Date of birth/death 20 March 1811 Edit this at Wikidata 7 July 1879 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Charlottesville (Virginia) Kansas City (Missouri)
Work location
Columbia, New York, Kansas City, Düsseldorf
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q598030

Details on Google Art Project
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Title
Lighter Relieving a Steamboat Aground
title QS:P1476,en:"Lighter Relieving a Steamboat Aground"
label QS:Len,"Lighter Relieving a Steamboat Aground"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Date 1847
date QS:P571,+1847-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 769.87 mm (30.31 in); width: 919.22 mm (36.19 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,769.874U174789
dimensions QS:P2049,919.226U174789
institution QS:P195,Q35525
Current location
Level State Floor (Details of level on Google Art Project) room Green Room (Details of room on Google Art Project)
Accession number
1978.1392.1
Object history
English: Purchased from artist by James E. Yeatman, St. Louis, 1847; descended in his family to anonymous donor.
Notes
  • Notes from Kloss, William, et al. Art in the White House: A Nation's Pride. Washington, D.C.: The White House Historical Association, 2008:
    " . . . [I]nstead of painting 'the never-ending transit of steamers' that was the reality of the 1840s, [Bingham] has wrapped his picture in the dream of the past, embodied in his monumental group of idle boatmen raptly listening to stories. The scene is unhurried, . . locked in place by . . . geometry--a pyramid of strikingly foreshortened, interlocked figures carefully aligned with the picture plane. . . .

". . . The steamboat in the distance has run aground on the shoal . . . .

". . . [The] primary focus is on the self-sufficient boatmen . . . . Having removed cargo from the steamer ('lightened' it so it can float free from the shoal), they have turned from it to listen to their storyteller."

  • Estill Curtis Pennington (2013). Romantic Expansions: Looking West From The White House. The White House Historical Association. Retrieved on 14 April 2020. "Bingham’s Lighter Relieving a Steamboat Aground recalls the age of “venturesome flatboats that drifted with the current, its picturesque rivermen, ‘half horse, half alligator,’ who towed their heavy crafts upstream, its rude miscellany of settlers who entrusted their families, and goods and cattle to great rafts and set forth hopefully on waters that were to bear them . . . to the Promised Land.”"
References Google Arts & Culture asset ID: 2gFGbMWRAISWJQ Edit this at Wikidata
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