Col. Edward Cresap McCarty
Artist
George Caleb Bingham
(American, 1811 - 1879)
Date1855
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 30 1/16 × 25 1/16 inches (76.36 × 63.66 cm)
Framed: 35 5/8 × 30 1/2 × 2 1/8 inches (90.49 × 77.47 × 5.4 cm)
Framed: 35 5/8 × 30 1/2 × 2 1/8 inches (90.49 × 77.47 × 5.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of Patsy and J.B. Cline
Object number2024.26
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionA distinguished man sits before a brown background. He is dressed very well, in a black bowtie, white collared shirt, and black suit jacket. His hair is styled and gray. His face is neither serious nor happy, but stoic.ProvenanceThe artist's gift to Edward Cresap McCarty (1805–1885) Saline County, MO, 1855;
By descent to his daughter, Edverda McCarty Evans;
By descent to her daughter, Nelle Evans Cline;
By descent to her son, James Robert Cline;
By descent to his daughter, Sally Cline Lutz;
Her gift to the Nelson-Akins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2024.
Bloch, E. Maurice, The paintings of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986), 205–06.
Bloch, E. Maurice, George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967), 95.
Bloch E. Maurice, George Caleb Bingham: The Evolution of an Artist (Berkely: University of California Press, 1967), n26 page 20.
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