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The Jolly Flatboatmen

George Caleb Bingham

Date: 1877–78

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection

Object number: 1992.15

Text Entries: "For the Ex-Confederates: Works of the Late G.C. Bingham to be Sold March 25." Kansas City Star (March 18, 1893): 5. Text p. 5, col. 1. "The Bingham Paintings Sold." Kansas City Star (March 25, 1893): 1. Text p. 1, col. 6. "The Bingham Paintings." Kansas City Journal (March 25, 1893): 3. Text p. 3, col. 1. "Sold at Auction: The Best of General Bingham's Paintings Went at Low Prices." Kansas City Journal (March 26, 1893): 2, col. 4. Text p. 2. Whitney, Carrie W. Kansas City, Missouri; Its History and Its People 1800–1908. Vol. I. Chicago, Illinois: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1908. Text p. 609. Rusk, Fern Helen. George Caleb Bingham: The Missouri Artist. Jefferson City, Missouri: The Hugh Stephens Company, 1917. Text pp. 34–37, 69, 107, 121; pl. XVIII. M.P., “George Caleb Bingham.” Bulletin of the City Art Museum of St. Louis 9, no. 4 (October 1924): 57–62. Text p. 60. Childs, Marquis W. "George Caleb Bingham." American Magazine of Art 27 (November 1934): 594–99. Text p. 598. "Bingham, First Missouri Artist Painted American Scene Vividly." American Collector III (February 7, 1935): 6. Text p. 6. Christ-Janer, Albert. George Caleb Bingham of Missouri: The Story of an Artist. Preface by Thomas Hart Benton. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1940. Text pp. 35, 37, 158n8. Larkin, Lew. Bingham: Fighting Artist, The Story of Missouri's Immortal Painter, Patriot, Soldier, and Statesman. Kansas City, Missouri: Burton Publishing Company, 1954. Text pp. 59–60. McDermott, John Francis. George Caleb Bingham: River Portraitist. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1959. Text pp. 161–62, 420n106; ill. p. 273, pl. 77 (black & white, as The Jolly Flatboatment No. 2). Bloch, E. Maurice. George Caleb Bingham: A Catalog Raisonné. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1967. Text p. 62, no. 157 (as The Jolly Flatboatmen No. 2). Bloch, E. Maurice. George Caleb Bingham: The Evolution of An Artist. Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1967. Text pp. 92–97, 102, 248, 250, 252; ill. no. 56 (black & white). Out of Sight: Works of Art from San Diego Collections. (exh. cat., Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego). San Diego, California: The Gallery, 1972. Text and ill (as Jolly Flatboatmen). Moure, Nancy Wall. American Narrative Painting. (exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art). Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1974. Text p. 68; ill. p. 69, no. 27 (color). Bloch, E. Maurice. The Drawings of George Caleb Bingham, With a Catalogue Raisonné. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1975. Text p. 247; ill. p. 247, pl. XXIII (black & white, as The Jolly Flatboatmen (2)). Reif, Rita. “$980,000 for a Bingham Sets a U.S. Record.” The New York Times (June 7, 1978). Text p. 22; ill. p. 22 (detail, black and white, as The Jolly Flatboatmen, No. 2). "Bingham's Flatboatmen Goes for Record $980,000." The Los Angeles Herald Examiner (June 7, 1978): 32. Text p. 32. Townsend, Dorothy. "U.S. Painting Auctioned for $980,000 in L.A." The Los Angeles Times; Miami Herald (June 7, 1978): 1, col. 4. Text p. 1, col. 4. Reif, Rita. "$980,000 Buys Bingham Work." The Kansas City Times (June 8, 1978): 6. Text p. 6. Ill. p. 6 (detail). Sarrano, Richard A. "$980,000 Buys Bingham Work." The Kansas City Times (June 8, 1978): 6. Text p. 6 (as The Jolly Flatboatmen, No.2). Hoffman, Donald. “Interest in Bingham Works Rising.” Kansas City Star (June 8, 1978). Text. “Record Sale.” Shreveport Journal (June 8, 1978). Text; ill. (appears in installation photograph). “Record Auction Price.” Newsday (June 10, 1978). Text. “Hirschl & Adler paid an astounding $980,000 for George Caleb Bingham’s ‘The Jolly Flatboatmen.’” The Gray Letter 3 no. 23 (June 12, 1978): 3. Text p. 3. Bohlin, Virginia. “980,000 Paid for Frontier Painting.” The Boston Globe (June 18, 1978). Text. Kramer, Hilton. "The Influence of Money on Taste." The New York Times (June 18, 1978): 27–28. Ill. p. 27 (as The Jolly Flatboatmen, No.2). “The 980,000 Bingham.” The ARTnewsletter 3 no. 22 (June 27, 1978): 5-6. Text p. 5-6. "Treasure Hunting." Antiques Monthly (July 1978): 4A. Ill. p. 4A. Jordan, George E. “$pectacular $ales Figures.” The Times-Picayune (July 9, 1978): 8. Text. p. 8; ill. p. 8 (as The Jolly Flatboatmen, No.2). "Looking Like a Million." Continental Airlines Flight Time (August 1978): 36–37. Ill. pp. 36–7 (color, as The Jolly Flatboatmen, No.2). Boneti, Charles. “Painting sold by museum turns to gold.” The Berkshire Eagle (August 12, 1978). Text p. 17. ill. p. 17 (detail as Jolly Flatboatmen No. 2). “Front Matter—Sotheby Parke Bernet.” The Burlington Magazine 120, no. 907 (October 1978): i-civ. Text p. vi; ill. p. vi (black & white, as The Jolly Flatboatmen, No. 2). Schulze, Franz. "Terra Incognita: A New Museum of American Art." Art News 79, no. 10 (December 1980): 84–87. Text p. 87; ill. p. 86 (color). Sokol, David M. Life in 19th Century America: An Exhibition of American Genre Painting. (exh. cat., Terra Museum of American Art). Evanston, Illinois: Terra Museum of American Art, 1981. Text pp. 16–17; ill. cover (color). Kirshner, Judith Russi. "The Terra Collection." United: The Magazine of the Friendly Skies (December 1982): 52–59. Ill. p. 57 (color). Adams, Henry. "Daniel Terra and American Art: Private Collector to Public Champion." Portfolio 5, no. 1 (January/February 1983): 48–53. Ill. p. 52 (color). Hemphill, Christopher. "Daniel Terra and His Collection." Town & Country (February 1984): 195. Text p. 195. Sokol, David M. "The Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois." The Magazine Antiques 126, no. 5 (November 1984): 1156–69. Ill. p. 1157; pl. IV (color). Behrendt, Stephen C. "Originality and Influence in George Caleb Bingham's Art." Great Plains Quarterly 5, no. 1 (Winter 1985): 24–38. Text pp. 24, 28, 31, 38n12; ill. p. 28, fig. 3 (black & white). Bloch, E. Maurice. The Paintings of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonné. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1986. Text pp. 240–241, no. 413; ill. p. 127, pl. 413 (black & white). Atkinson, D. Scott et al. A Proud Heritage: Two Centuries of American Art. Edited by Terry A. Neff. (exh. cat., Terra Museum of American Art). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 1987. Text p. 127; ill. p. 127, pl. T-18 (color). Roucher, Nancy. “Float down a river frontier.” Instructor (September 1987): 74. Text p. 74; ill. p. 74 (black and white), insert (color). Shapiro, Michael Edward, Barbara Groseclose, Elizabeth Johns, Paul C. Nagel and John Wilmerding. George Caleb Bingham. (exh. cat., The Saint Louis Art Museum). St. Louis, Missouri and New York: The Saint Louis Art Museum in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1990. Text pp. 172–173; ill. p. 173, fig. 35 (black & white). Southgate, M. Therese. "The Cover." The Journal of the American Medical Association 263, no. 22 (June 13, 1990): 3008. Text p. 3008; ill. cover (color). The Jolly Flatboatmen, George Caleb Bingham. Collection Cameo sheet, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois, September 1990. Ill. (black & white). Kloss, William et al. America in Art: Fifty Great Paintings Celebrating Fifty Years. (exh. cat., Santa Barbara Museum of Art). Santa Barbara, California: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1991. Text p. 16; ill. p. 17 (black & white). Southgate, M. Therese. "The Cover." The Journal of the American Medical Association Middle East (August 1991): 14. Text p. 14; ill. cover (color). Rash, Nancy. The Paintings and Politics of George Caleb Bingham. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1991. Text pp. 219–20; ill. p. 219, fig. 67 (black & white). Marling, Karal Ann. “Art and Ideology in Frontier Missouri: Or, are George Caleb Bingham’s Jolly Flatboatmen Really Happy Whigs?” Reviews in American History 20, no. 1 (March 1992): 30–34. Text p. 34. Gernes, Todd S. “Review: The Paintings and Politics of George Caleb Bingham by Nancy Rash.” Winterthur Portfolio 27, no. 1 (Spring 1992): 88–90. Text p. 88. Behrendt, Stephen C. “Review: The Paintings and Politics of George Caleb Bingham by Nancy Rash.” Great Plains Quarterly 12, no. 3 (Summer 1992): 209–210. Text p. 210. Clarkin, Maura A. and Cynthia Rawson. "Instructional Resources." Art Education 45, no. 5 (September 1992): 25–26. Text p. 26; ill. p. 25. "Art/Work." Personnel Journal (December 1992): 80. Text and ill. p. 80. Shapiro, Michael Edward. George Caleb Bingham. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers in association with The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1993. Text p. 138; ill. p. 139 (color). "Art, Science and Architecture—Terra Museum of American Art.” Rockford Magazine (May 1994): 34. Ill. p. 34. Buser, Thomas. Experiencing Art Around Us. St. Paul, Minnesota: West Publishing Company, 1995. Text p. 182; ill. p. 182, fig. 7–16 (color). Purves, Alan C. Scott Foresman Literature and Integrated Studies: American Literature. Glenview, Illinois: Scott Foresman, 1997. Text p. 361; ill. p. 361 (color). Hassrick, Peter H. The American West: Out of Myth, Into Reality. (exh. cat., Terra Museum of American Art, Toledo Museum of Art Ohio). Washington D.C.: Trust for Museum Exhibitions, 2000. Text p. 119; ill. p. 118, no. 82 (color). Cartwright, Derrick R. Waves and Waterways: American Perspectives, 1850–1900. (exh. cat., Musée d'Art Américain Giverny). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2000. Text p. 15; ill. p. 15, fig. 5 (black & white). Cartwright, Derrick R. Rivières et rivages: les artistes américains, 1850–1900. (exh. cat., Musée d'Art Américain Giverny). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2000. Text p. 15; ill. p. 15, fig. 5 (black & white). The Extraordinary and the Everyday: American Perspectives 1820–1920. (exh. cat., Musée d'Art Américain Giverny). Giverny, France: Musée d'Art Américain Giverny, 2001. Text pp. 11–12, 22 (checklist); ill. frontispiece (color), p. 11, fig. 4 (black & white). L'héroïque et le quotidien: les artistes américains, 1820–1920. (exh. cat., Musée d'Art Américain Giverny). Giverny, France: Musée d'Art Américain Giverny, 2001. Text pp. 11–12, 22 (checklist); ill. frontispiece (color), p. 11 fig. 4 (black & white). Harvey, Eleanor Jones. The Voyage of the 'Icebergs': Frederic Church's Arctic Masterpiece. Dallas, Texas: Dallas Museum of Art, 2002. Text p. 78; ill. p. 78, fig. 44 (color). Bourguignon, Katherine M. and Elizabeth Kennedy. An American Point of View: The Daniel J. Terra Collection. Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2002. Text p. 18; ill. p. 18 (color). Bourguignon, Katherine M. and Elizabeth Kennedy. Un regard transatlantique. La collection d'art américain de Daniel J. Terra. Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2002. Text p. 18; ill. p. 18 (color). Kennedy, Elizabeth. "The Terra Museum of American Art." American Art Review (December 2002): 126–41. Text pp. 126, 129 ; ill. p. 126 (color). Bourguignon, Katherine M. and Elizabeth Kennedy. The People Work: American Perspectives, 1840–1940. (exh. cat., Terra Museum of American Art). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2003. Text pp. 17, 27 (checklist); ill. p. 17, fig. 4 (black & white). Bourguignon, Katherine M. and Elizabeth Kennedy. Le Travail à l'oeuvre: les artistes américains, 1840–1940. (exh. cat., Terra Museum of American Art). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2003. Text pp. 17, 27 (checklist); ill. p. 17, fig. 4 (black & white). Genocchio, Benjamin. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/21/nyregion/art-review-he-had-a-love-affair-with-american-art.html" target="_blank"> “Art Review: He Had a Love Affair with American Art.”</a> The New York Times (September 21, 2003). Accessed November 29, 2016. Text. Richter, Annett. "George Caleb Bingham's River Paintings Revisited: Music and Dance in The Jolly Flatboatmen." Musicological Explorations 5 (2004): 8–41. Text pp. 8–41; ill. p. 37, pl. 4. Davidson, Susan, ed. Art in the USA: 300 años de innovación. (exh. cat., Guggenheim Museum Bilbao). New York, NY: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; Chicago, IL: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2007. Ill. p. 101 (color). Neset, Arne. Arcadian Waters and Wanton Seas: The Iconology of Waterscapes in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Culture. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2009. Text. p. 247 no. 26. Baumgärtel, Bettina, ed. Die Düsseldorfer Malerschule und ihre internationale Ausstrahlung 1819–1918, Vol. I–II. (exh. cat., Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany). Düsseldorf: Museum Kunstpalast, 2011. Text Vol. II, p. 328; ill. p. 329, cat. no. 273 (color), cover (detail, color). Baumgärtel, Bettina, ed. The Düsseldorf School of Painting and its International Influence 1819–1918. (exh. cat. Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany). Düsseldorf: Museum Kunstpalast, 2011. Text p. 257; ill. p. 257, cat. no. 103 (color), cover (detail, color). Gentzler, Lynn Wolf, ed. “But I Forget That I Am a Painter and Not a Politician": The Letters of George Caleb Bingham. Columbia, MO: State Historical Society of Missouri, 2011. Text pp. 12, 456–457n3. Stadel, Stefanie. <a href="https://www.welt.de/print/wams/nrw/article13624359/Duesseldorf-entdeckt-seine-Malerschule.html" target="_blank"> “Düsseldorf entdeckt seine Malerschule.”</a> Welt (September 25, 2011). Accessed November 29, 2016. Text. Rykner, Didier. <a href="http://www.thearttribune.com/The-Dusseldorf-School.html" target="_blank"> “The Dusseldorf School.”</a> The Art Tribune (November 22, 2011). Accessed November 29, 2016. Text. Ruhs-Woltschützke, Irmgard. <a href="http://www.rheinische-art.de/cms/topics/erste-kuenstlerbewegung-rheinland-duesseldorfer-malerschule-museum-kunstpalast.php" target="_blank"> “Lebendiger Ruhm: Die Kunstakademie und die Düsseldorfer Malerschule.” </a> rheinische Art kulturMagazin (December 2011). Accessed November 29, 2016. Ill. (color). Udall, Sharyn Rohlfsen. Dance and American Art: A Long Embrace. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. Text, p. 38; ill. p. 38, fig. 19 (color). American Encounters: Genre Painting and Everyday Life. (exh. cat. Musée du Louvre, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, High Museum of Art). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2012. Text pp. 31–32, 62, 64; ill. p. 62, cat. no. 5 (color), cover (detail, color), frontispiece and title page (color). New Frontier: Les travaux et le jours : aux sources de la peinture de genre américain. (exh. cat. Musée du Louvre, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, High Museum of Art). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2012. Text pp. 31–32, 62, 64; ill. p. 62, cat. no. 5 (color), cover (detail, color), frontispiece and title page (color). Kirchberger, Nico. <a href="http://titelmagazin.com/artikel/12/10614/die-d%C3%BCsseldorfer-malerschule.html" target="_blank"> “Hochschule für Weltklasse.”</a> Titel Magazine (February 23, 2012). Accessed November 29, 2016. Ill. (color). Peacock, Leslie Newell. <a href="http://www.arktimes.com/RockCandy/archives/2013/05/08/genre-painting-and-everyday-life-genre-scenes-on-paper-open-saturday" target="_blank">“’Genre Painting and Everyday Life,’ ‘Genre Scenes on Paper’ Open Saturday.”</a>Arkansas Times (May 8, 2013). Accessed November 29, 2016. Text. Luarca-Shoaf, Nenette, Claire Berry, Nancy Huegh, Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Dorothy Mahon. Andrew J. Walker, and Janeen Turk. Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River. (exh. cat. Amon Carter Museum of American Art and Saint Louis Art Museum). Fort Worth, Texas: Amon Carter Museum of American Art and Saint Louis, Missouri: Saint Louis Art Museum, 2014. Text. pp. 71, 100, 129; ill. p. 163, pl. 48 (color), p. 128, fig. 43 (detail, color, black &white), p. 130, fig. 74 (detail, color, black &white). <a href="http://www.stltoday.com/entertainment/arts-and-theatre/navigating-the-west-offers-some-of-the-best-of-bingham/article_266ed6ff-3333-59d6-b092-621419ab9386.html" target="_blank"> “’Navigating the West’ Offers Some of the Best of Bingham.”</a> Miller, Sarah Bryan. St. Louis Post-Dispatch (February 28, 2015). Accessed November 29, 2016. Text. <a href="http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/press/2015/acquisition-bingham.html" target="_blank"> “George Caleb Bingham’s Great American Masterpiece, The Jolly Flatboatmen, is Acquired by the National Gallery of Art, Washington.”</a> National Gallery of Art (May 29, 2015). Accessed November 4, 2016. Text. Wierich, Jochen.Picturing Mississippi, 1817–2017: Land of Plenty, Pain, and Promise" (exh. cat. Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi). Jackson, Mississippi: Mississippi Museum of Art, 2017. Text: pp. 38, 69 (checklist); ill. p. 38, fig. 33, p. 109 (color). Bourguignon, Katherine M., and Peter John Brownlee, eds. Conversations with the Collection: A Terra Foundation Collection Handbook. Chicago: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2018. Text p. 104; ill. p. 104 (color).