Moss Prewitt
Artist
George Caleb Bingham
(American, 1811 - 1879)
Dateca. 1855
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 30 1/8 x 25 inches (76.52 x 63.5 cm)
Framed: 41 x 37 inches (104.14 x 93.98 cm)
Framed: 41 x 37 inches (104.14 x 93.98 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. Charles van Ravenswaay in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Porter
Object numberF84-84/1
SignedNone.
InscribedNone.
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionFrontal bust portrait of man with receding hairline and long sideburns. White stand-up collar with knotted sash and white, puffed shirtfront showing through coat.Published ReferencesJohn Francis McDermott, George Caleb Bingham: River Portraitist (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959), 427;
E. Maurice Bloch, George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné
(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967),
100 (as Frederick Moss Prewitt and Mrs. Frederick Moss Prewitt
[Nancy Johnston]); William Hollan, “Nelson Gallery Given Three
Bingham Portraits,” Kansas City Times, 23 May 1985, B4; “Hand-
Picked Art,” Kansas City Times, 1 June 1985, C6; Donald Hoffmann, “Grandma Moses Exhibit Set for Omaha,” Kansas City Star,
2 June 1985, 6D; Laura Rollins Hockaday, “Kansas City People,”
Kansas City Star, 23 June 1985, 7I; Calendar of Events (Nelson-
Atkins Museum of Art), June 1985, unpaginated (as Portrait of
Mr. Moss Prewitt and Portrait of Mrs. Moss Prewitt); Edgar A.
Albin, “Kansas City Museum Buys Works by Rauschenberg,
Bingham,” Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader, 28 July 1985, 2H;
E. Maurice Bloch, The Paintings of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986),
98, 207–8 (as Frederick Moss Prewitt and Mrs. Frederick Moss
Prewitt [Nancy Johnston]).
E. Maurice Bloch, George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné
(Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967),
100 (as Frederick Moss Prewitt and Mrs. Frederick Moss Prewitt
[Nancy Johnston]); William Hollan, “Nelson Gallery Given Three
Bingham Portraits,” Kansas City Times, 23 May 1985, B4; “Hand-
Picked Art,” Kansas City Times, 1 June 1985, C6; Donald Hoffmann, “Grandma Moses Exhibit Set for Omaha,” Kansas City Star,
2 June 1985, 6D; Laura Rollins Hockaday, “Kansas City People,”
Kansas City Star, 23 June 1985, 7I; Calendar of Events (Nelson-
Atkins Museum of Art), June 1985, unpaginated (as Portrait of
Mr. Moss Prewitt and Portrait of Mrs. Moss Prewitt); Edgar A.
Albin, “Kansas City Museum Buys Works by Rauschenberg,
Bingham,” Springfield (Mo.) News-Leader, 28 July 1985, 2H;
E. Maurice Bloch, The Paintings of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986),
98, 207–8 (as Frederick Moss Prewitt and Mrs. Frederick Moss
Prewitt [Nancy Johnston]).
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George Caleb Bingham
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