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THIS WIRE 98% PRAISE 2% CRITICISM YOUR WRITEUP GEORGE CALEB BINGHAM FEB. n. PRAISE FOR BOOSTING GREATEST MISSOURI ARTIST. CRITICISM FOR SUGGESTING MANHATTAN RESPONSIBLE FOR REVIVAL OF INTEREST IN BINGHAM. CREDIT BELONGS TO TAX-SUPPORTED ART MUSEUM OF ST. LOUIS AND ESPECIALLY TO DIRECTOR MEYRIC ROGERS. CURRENT MANHATTAN SHOW IS REPETITION OF ST. LOUIS...
Mildly competent his work may be, but the elaborate canvases of George Caleb Bingham described early life on the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers far more ably and colorfully than the much-touted Currier & Ives lithographs. Bingham was one of the few painters in the world who was a practicing politician all his life, and he remains today one of the few Missouri artists ever to gain national fame...
Born in Virginia, George Caleb Bingham moved with his family to Howard County in 1819. Left fatherless at the age of twelve he worked as an apprentice cabinet maker and cigar roller, turned to painting as a profession when he met an Eastern artist named Chester Harding who had gone out to the frontier to paint the portrait of the aging Daniel Boone. A severe attack of measles left Bingham as bald as an egg at the age of 19. For the rest of his life he wore a succession of handsomely curled wigs. Quick success in painting portraits...
More crudely painted, yet more important historically was George Caleb Bingham's Martial Law (Order No. 11). The original remained in Columbia, Mo. last week, was represented at the Modern Museum only by a hand-colored engraving...
...forget. Shortly after the Civil War he painted a highly melodramatic canvas of the evacuation of a Missouri farmhouse: the ruthless soldiers, the fainting mother, the weeping daughters, the stalwart father. When in 1879 Thomas Ewing ran for Governor of Ohio, George Caleb Bingham sent Martial Law junketing from town to town in that State on the crest of a flood of anti-Ewing pamphlets. General Ewing was defeated...