Word: flatboatmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mist-shrouded painting of the river at night, done in 1905 by Frederick Oakes Sylvester. Between the two were a handful of great and near-great artists: naturalist-painters such as John James Audubon, Missouri's George Caleb Bingham who immortalized the river's roistering flatboatmen, and Indian Painters Charles Bodmer and George Catlin...
...paintings now rank with the best. Christ-Janer's up-to-date biography of the slight, religious, sharp-tongued cabinetmaker's apprentice is of most interest for its reproductions (many of the originals have vanished). To evoke the U. S. past as successfully as these paintings of flatboatmen, fur traders, political scenes, many a novelist would give his right...
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