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DISCOVERY
Artist: George Caleb Bingham ( 1811-1879 )
Title: Horse Thief
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 29 x 35.75 inches
Unsigned
[Note: Only a small percentage of Bingham's body of work is signed.]
Date: 1852, New York City
Provenance:
Private Collection (as unidentified artist)
Art Market, Dallas, to December 1999 (as unidentified)
Fred R. Kline Gallery (Initial research and attribution)
Private Collection, MA, 1999 to present
Catalogue Raisonne:
The George Caleb Bingham Catalogue Raisonne Supplement of Paintings and Drawings ( Horse Thief-CRS 1. )
Authentication: The Bingham Catalogue Raisonne Advisory Committee:
Dr. Paul Nagel
William Kloss
Fred R. Kline
Consulting Scholars:
Dr. John Wilmerding
Dr. Henry Adams
Dr. Barbara Groseclose
Dr. Elizabeth Johns
Exhibitions:
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“George Caleb Bingham, The Artist and His World”. Curated by Paul Nagel. The State Historical Society of Missouri, Main Gallery, University of Missouri,Columbia , MO. April 22, 2005-August 19, 2005. Horse Thief featured with related Bingham drawings as a new discovery and exhibited with other Bingham paintings from the SHSM collection. Opening Lectures by Paul Nagel and Fred R. Kline.
The George Caleb Bingham Catalogue Raisonne Supplement of Paintings and Drawings. Fred R. Kline, Editor. George Caleb Bingham, Horse Thief. Exhibited online: www.GeorgeCalebBingham.org.
Ongoing from April 2006, Santa Fe, NM.
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Bibliography:
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Paul Nagel. George Caleb Bingham, Missouri’s Famed Painter and
Forgotten Politician. Horse Thief illustrated full page in color page 45 and noted as a new discovery on pages 39-41. University of Missouri Press, 2005
Fred R. Kline, Editor. The George Caleb Bingham Catalogue Raisonne Supplement of Paintings and Drawings. CRS # 1: Horse Thief.
Illustration #1 & Research published online at www.GeorgeCalebBingham.org. Ongoing with revisions from 2006-2010, Santa Fe, NM
Fred R. Kline. "George Caleb Bingham, Artist of Missouri and the American Frontier". Published online at www.GeorgeCalebBingham.org. Ongoing with revisions from 2006- 2010, Santa Fe, NM
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STANDARD REFERENCE |
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E. Maurice Bloch, The Paintings of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonne. Horse Thief # 548 (Attributed), page 269. University of Missouri Press, 1986. |
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E. Maurice Bloch, George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonne. Horse Thief # 453 (Possible Painting), p.171. University of California Press, 1967. |
Private Collection
By Appointment
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