Mountain Landscape
Artist
George Caleb Bingham
(American, 1811 - 1879)
Date1872-1878
MediumOil on canvas; mounted on Masonite
DimensionsUnframed: 10 7/8 x 14 3/4 inches (27.62 x 37.47 cm)
Framed: 16 3/4 x 20 inches (42.55 x 50.8 cm)
Framed: 16 3/4 x 20 inches (42.55 x 50.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Miss Mary Christine Austin
Object number66-12
SignedSigned lower right: Geo Bingham
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionIn foreground, left, grassy point with flowering bushes and three large boulders, water extending from right into center and right distance; rocky shores, left and right middleground; in background, range of peaks, lighted diagonally from top left and showing snow above salmon-pink escarpments.Published References“George Caleb Bingham: Sesquicentennial Exhibition, 1811–1961,”
Bulletin (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins
Museum of Fine Arts) 3 (1961), 21; Donald L. Hoffmann, “Bingham’s Colorado View,” Kansas City Star, 24 April 1966, 1F, 5F
(as Colorado Mountain Landscape); Lew Larkin, “Art World Has
‘Discovered’ Bingham and Many of His Works Await the Finding,” Kansas City Star, 11 June 1966, 16 (as Colorado Mountain
Landscape); “Estate Leaves Art to Nelson Gallery,” Kansas City Times,
18 May 1967, 8D (as Colorado Mountain Landscape); E. Maurice
Bloch, George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Berkeley and
Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967), 148, no. A383
(as Colorado Mountain Landscape); E. Maurice Bloch, George
Caleb Bingham: The Evolution of an Artist (Berkeley and Los
Angeles: University of California Press, 1967), 183, 259, pl. 121 (as
Colorado Mountain Landscape); Constance W. Glenn, “The Nineteenth Century American Landscape Tradition: Selections from
the Collection of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum,” typescript,
1968, NAMA curatorial fi le, 1–3; In Search of America: 19th Century Painters and Writers, exh. cat. (Regina: Norman Mackenzie
Art Gallery, Saskatchewan University, 1971), 30, 39; NAMA 1973,
250; “Gallery Painting Stolen,” Kansas City Times, 9 January 1974,
3A; Mark Schlinkmann, “Stolen Nelson Painting Recovered,” Kansas City Times, 8 February 1974, 1; “Freed in Theft,” Kansas City
Star, 8 February 1974, 2; Albert Christ-Janer, George Caleb Bingham: Frontier Painter of Missouri (New York: Harry N. Abrams,
1975), pl. 156; “Missouri’s Binghams,” Kansas City Star, 28 March
1976, 3E; Patricia Trenton and Peter H. Hassrick, The Rocky Mountains: A Vision for Artists in the Nineteenth Century (Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1983), 234, 239, 380n107 (as Colorado Mountain Landscape); E. Maurice Bloch, The Paintings of
George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986), 26n104, 119, 232–33, no. 380 (as Colorado Mountain Landscape); Margaret C. Conrads, “Bingham to
Benton: The Midwest as Muse,” American Art Review 17 (January–
February 2005), 152–53.
Bulletin (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins
Museum of Fine Arts) 3 (1961), 21; Donald L. Hoffmann, “Bingham’s Colorado View,” Kansas City Star, 24 April 1966, 1F, 5F
(as Colorado Mountain Landscape); Lew Larkin, “Art World Has
‘Discovered’ Bingham and Many of His Works Await the Finding,” Kansas City Star, 11 June 1966, 16 (as Colorado Mountain
Landscape); “Estate Leaves Art to Nelson Gallery,” Kansas City Times,
18 May 1967, 8D (as Colorado Mountain Landscape); E. Maurice
Bloch, George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Berkeley and
Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1967), 148, no. A383
(as Colorado Mountain Landscape); E. Maurice Bloch, George
Caleb Bingham: The Evolution of an Artist (Berkeley and Los
Angeles: University of California Press, 1967), 183, 259, pl. 121 (as
Colorado Mountain Landscape); Constance W. Glenn, “The Nineteenth Century American Landscape Tradition: Selections from
the Collection of the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum,” typescript,
1968, NAMA curatorial fi le, 1–3; In Search of America: 19th Century Painters and Writers, exh. cat. (Regina: Norman Mackenzie
Art Gallery, Saskatchewan University, 1971), 30, 39; NAMA 1973,
250; “Gallery Painting Stolen,” Kansas City Times, 9 January 1974,
3A; Mark Schlinkmann, “Stolen Nelson Painting Recovered,” Kansas City Times, 8 February 1974, 1; “Freed in Theft,” Kansas City
Star, 8 February 1974, 2; Albert Christ-Janer, George Caleb Bingham: Frontier Painter of Missouri (New York: Harry N. Abrams,
1975), pl. 156; “Missouri’s Binghams,” Kansas City Star, 28 March
1976, 3E; Patricia Trenton and Peter H. Hassrick, The Rocky Mountains: A Vision for Artists in the Nineteenth Century (Norman:
University of Oklahoma Press, 1983), 234, 239, 380n107 (as Colorado Mountain Landscape); E. Maurice Bloch, The Paintings of
George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1986), 26n104, 119, 232–33, no. 380 (as Colorado Mountain Landscape); Margaret C. Conrads, “Bingham to
Benton: The Midwest as Muse,” American Art Review 17 (January–
February 2005), 152–53.
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