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Mrs. Benoist Troost

Artist George Caleb Bingham (American, 1811 - 1879)
Date1859
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 40 3/4 × 30 3/8 inches (103.51 × 77.15 cm)
Framed: 50 1/2 × 39 7/8 × 2 inches (128.27 × 101.28 × 5.08 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Board of Education of Kansas City, Missouri
Object number35-42/2
SignedNone.
InscribedNone.
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionThree-quarter-length portrait of a lady seated, turned proper right, facing front and wearing a black lace-trimmed dress; red drapery, doric column, and mountainous landscape in background.Published References

Fern Helen Rusk, George Caleb Bingham: The Missouri Artist (Jefferson City, Mo.: Hugh Stephens Co., 1917), 70-71, 123 (as Portrait of Mrs. Mary Troost);

Troost Portrait a Gift," Kansas City Times, 4 May 1935, 1, 3 (as Mrs. Troost);

"In Gallery and Studio," Kansas City Star, 12 July 1935, 8;

"Art," Kansas City Times, 17 July 1935, 7;

Albert Christ-Janer, George Caleb Bingham of Missouri: The Story of an Artist (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1940), 96-97;

NAMA 1940, 21 (as Portrait of Mrs. Troost);

NAMA 1941, 166 (as Portrait of Mrs. Troost);

Winifred Shields, "Art and Artists," Kansas City Star, 23 September 1949, 18;

Dorothy Heiderstadt, "Self-Made Painter of Early Missouri Contributed Much to Historical Record," Kansas City Star, 18 February 1950, 12;

Winifred Shields, "Centennial Exhibition of Missouri Valley Art Opens at Nelson Gallery," Kansas City Star, 25 June 1950, C1;

Fay E. Glenn, "Dr. and Mrs. Benoist Troost, Prominent Citizens of Kansas City in the Nineteenth Century: The Troost Portraits by George Caleb Bingham," typescript, 1953, NAMA curatorial files;

Lew Larkin, Bingham: Fighting Artist (Kansas City, Mo.: Burton Publishing Company, 1954), 121, 123;

NAMA 1959, 255 (as Mrs. Mary Troost);

John Francis McDermott, George Caleb Bingham: River Portraitist (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959), 128, 253, 428;

E. Maurice Bloch, George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967), 107-8;

E. Maurice Bloch, George Caleb Bingham: The Evolution of an Artist (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967), 1, 172n5, 205-6, 258, 338;

NAMA 1973, 250 (as Mrs. Mary Troost);

National Society of the Colonial Dames in America, Missouri, Portraits in Missouri: Painted before 1860 (n.p.: National Society of the Colonial Dames in America, 1974), unpaginated;

Ross E. Taggart, "American Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri," Antiques 122 (November 1982), 1032-33, 1035 (as Mary Ann Troost);

E. Maurice Bloch, The Paintings of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986), 103, 212-13;

NAMA 1991, 76-77;

NAMA 1993b, 53;

Margaret C. Conrads, "Bingham to Benton: The Midwest as Muse," American Art Review 17 (January-February 2005), 152-53;

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