Judge James Turner Vance Thompson
Artist
George Caleb Bingham
(American, 1811 - 1879)
Dateca. 1859-1860
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 30 1/8 × 25 1/8 inches (76.52 × 63.82 cm)
Framed: 38 × 32 1/4 inches (96.52 × 81.92 cm)
Framed: 38 × 32 1/4 inches (96.52 × 81.92 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. James Love
Object number36-19/1
SignedNone.
InscribedNone.
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionBust-length portrait of a man with long black hair, seated proper left, facing forward; dressed in white shirt, wide black tie, and black coat. In right hand he is holding a gold-headed walking stick.Published ReferencesAn asterisk [*] indicates references that mention both portraits; in
all other cases, the references are for Judge James Turner Vance
Thompson only.
*Alexander Doniphan Chapter, Daughters of the American Revo
lution, Clay County, Missouri Centennial Souvenir, 1822–1922
(Liberty, Mo.: Liberty Tribune, 1922), 10–11 (as Judge James T. V.
Thompson and Emily Warner Drew Thompson); *“Two Bingham
Portraits in Liberty, Mo.,” 27 November 1932, Kansas City Star,
photo sec., 6; *“Rare Gifts to Gallery,” Kansas City Star, 4 April
1934, 6; *“In Gallery and Studio,” Kansas City Star, 12 July 1935,
8; *“Special Exhibits on Display,” 25 July 1935, clipping, NAMA
curatorial files; *“Clay Pioneers Displayed,” 8 August 1935, clip
ping, NAMA curatorial files; “Clay County History Prominent
in Gallery,” 14 January 1936, clipping, NAMA curatorial fi les;
*“Gifts,” News Flashes (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art
and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) 2 (15–31 March 1936), 4
(Mrs. James Turner Vance Thompson referred to as Emily Warner
Drey Thompson); *“Mrs. Anna Love Taken by Death,” Liberty
(Mo.) Tribune, 13 January 1938, 1; *“Historical Notes and Com
ments: Notes,” Missouri Historical Review 32 (July 1938), 579;
*NAMA 1940, 24 (as Judge Turner Vance Thompson and Emily
W. D. Thompson); *NAMA 1941, 166 (as Portrait of Judge J. T. V.
Thompson and Portrait of Emily W. D. Thompson); *Winifred
Shields, “Centennial Exhibition of Missouri Valley Art Opens at
Nelson Gallery,” Kansas City Star, 25 June 1950, C1; *NAMA
1959, 255 (Mrs. James Turner Vance Thompson as Emily Warner Drey Thompson); *E. Maurice Bloch, George Caleb Bingham:
A Catalogue Raisonné (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of
California Press, 1967), 109–10; *E. Maurice Bloch, George Caleb
Bingham: The Evolution of an Artist (Berkeley and Los Angeles:
University of California Press, 1967), 206, 210n19, pls. 155–56;
*NAMA 1973, 250 (Mrs. James Turner Vance Thompson as Emily
Warner Drey Thompson); *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 (Mrs. James Turner Vance Thompson as Emily Warner Drew Thompson); *E. Maurice Bloch, The Paintings of George
Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Columbia: University of
Missouri Press, 1986), 7, 105, 215; Patsy Moss, “The Portraits of
George Caleb Bingham Reveal a Different History of Greater
Kansas City,” Kawsmouth 3 (Winter/Spring 2001), 78 (as James
Turner Vance Thompson).
all other cases, the references are for Judge James Turner Vance
Thompson only.
*Alexander Doniphan Chapter, Daughters of the American Revo
lution, Clay County, Missouri Centennial Souvenir, 1822–1922
(Liberty, Mo.: Liberty Tribune, 1922), 10–11 (as Judge James T. V.
Thompson and Emily Warner Drew Thompson); *“Two Bingham
Portraits in Liberty, Mo.,” 27 November 1932, Kansas City Star,
photo sec., 6; *“Rare Gifts to Gallery,” Kansas City Star, 4 April
1934, 6; *“In Gallery and Studio,” Kansas City Star, 12 July 1935,
8; *“Special Exhibits on Display,” 25 July 1935, clipping, NAMA
curatorial files; *“Clay Pioneers Displayed,” 8 August 1935, clip
ping, NAMA curatorial files; “Clay County History Prominent
in Gallery,” 14 January 1936, clipping, NAMA curatorial fi les;
*“Gifts,” News Flashes (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art
and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) 2 (15–31 March 1936), 4
(Mrs. James Turner Vance Thompson referred to as Emily Warner
Drey Thompson); *“Mrs. Anna Love Taken by Death,” Liberty
(Mo.) Tribune, 13 January 1938, 1; *“Historical Notes and Com
ments: Notes,” Missouri Historical Review 32 (July 1938), 579;
*NAMA 1940, 24 (as Judge Turner Vance Thompson and Emily
W. D. Thompson); *NAMA 1941, 166 (as Portrait of Judge J. T. V.
Thompson and Portrait of Emily W. D. Thompson); *Winifred
Shields, “Centennial Exhibition of Missouri Valley Art Opens at
Nelson Gallery,” Kansas City Star, 25 June 1950, C1; *NAMA
1959, 255 (Mrs. James Turner Vance Thompson as Emily Warner Drey Thompson); *E. Maurice Bloch, George Caleb Bingham:
A Catalogue Raisonné (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of
California Press, 1967), 109–10; *E. Maurice Bloch, George Caleb
Bingham: The Evolution of an Artist (Berkeley and Los Angeles:
University of California Press, 1967), 206, 210n19, pls. 155–56;
*NAMA 1973, 250 (Mrs. James Turner Vance Thompson as Emily
Warner Drey Thompson); *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 (Mrs. James Turner Vance Thompson as Emily Warner Drew Thompson); *E. Maurice Bloch, The Paintings of George
Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Columbia: University of
Missouri Press, 1986), 7, 105, 215; Patsy Moss, “The Portraits of
George Caleb Bingham Reveal a Different History of Greater
Kansas City,” Kawsmouth 3 (Winter/Spring 2001), 78 (as James
Turner Vance Thompson).
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George Caleb Bingham
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