Samuel Ritchey Sr.

Artist Unknown

Attributed to George Caleb Bingham (American, 1811 - 1879)

Daten.d.

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsUnframed: 24 1/8 x 20 1/8 inches (61.28 x 51.12 cm)
Framed: 29 7/8 x 25 15/16 inches (75.88 x 65.88 cm)

Credit LineGift of George S. Ritchey, Irwin Ritchey, Mrs. Cora Bradley, and Mrs. Martha Haines

Object number34-299

Signedunsigned, undated

On View

Not on view

Collections

American Art

Terms

DescriptionPortrait of an old man with long, white hair and sideburns, wearing black suit, black bow tie, and white shirt.Published References

Published References

Martin E. Lawson to Herbert V. Jones, 20 September 1934, NAMA curatorial files (artist as Rollins Bingham);

“Clay Pioneers Displayed,” 8 August 1935, clipping, NAMA curatorial files (artist as George Caleb Bingham);

“Liberal with Art,” Kansas City Star, 1 January 1936, 8 (as Portrait of Samuel Ritchey, Sr. by George Caleb Bingham);

“On Art Gallery Walls,” Liberty (Mo.) Tribune, 2 January 1936, 2 (artist as Bingham);

“Clay County History Prominent in Gallery,” 14 January 1936, clipping, NAMA curatorial files (artist as George Caleb Bingham);

E. Maurice Bloch, George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967), 116–17 (artist as George Caleb Bingham);

E. Maurice Bloch, George Caleb Bingham: The Evolution of an Artist (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967), 116 (as Samuel Ritchey by George Caleb Bingham);

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5^th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 250 (artist as George Caleb Bingham);

E. Maurice Bloch, The Paintings of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986), 219 (artist as George Caleb Bingham).

Margaret C. Conrads, ed. The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Paintings to 1945 (Kansas City, Mo.: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007), 2: 263-264 (repro.) (artist as Unknown Artist (formerly attrib. to George Caleb Bingham)).

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