George Caleb Bingham

George Caleb Bingham (1811-1879) was an American artist who depicted frontier life. Although not technically as skilled as many other American painters, Bingham's work remains a valuable documentation of American history as well as being perfectly suited to its subjects. His was a truly American (as opposed to Euro-American) art. The question remains as to whether Bingham's paintings were true-to-life reportage of the American frontier, or whether they were mythologized depictions.

More internet resources on Bingham are here, here, and here.

Captured by Indians (1848)

 Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through Cumberland Gap (1851-52)

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 Family Life on the Frontier (1845)

 Fishing on the Mississippi (1851-52)

 Jolly Flatboatmen in Port (1857)

 Martial Law (or General Order No. 11) (1868)

[what was General Order No. 11? find out here]

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Raftsmen Playing Cards (1847)

 Stump Speaking (1853-54)

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 The County Election (1852)

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 The Dull Story (1843)

 The Squatters (1850)

 The Verdict of the People (1854-55)

Washington Crossing the Delaware (1856-71)

It's interesting to compare Bingham's depiction of Washingon crossing the Delaware with Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze's more famous (and dramatic) version.

Edward Lamson Henry, ctd

Here is the final set of paintings by E.L. Henry.

 The Old Dutch Church, Bruynswick (1878)

 The Pillory and Whipping Post, New Castle, Delaware (1896)

 The Sitting Room (1883)

 The Sunny Hours of Childhood (1879)

 The Village Street (1892)

 Village Square (1870)

 Village Squire Entertaining the New Minister

Waiting for the Ferry (1906)

Edward Lamson Henry, ctd

Parlor on Brooklyn Heights of Mr. and Mrs. John Ballard (1872)

 Presentation of the Colors (1864)

[depicts the outfitting of two African-American Civil War regiments]

 Stopping For a Chat (1889)

 The 9:45 Accommodation

 The Conversation (1882)

 The Country Store (1885)

 The First Railroad Train on the Mohawk and Hudson Road (1892-93)

 The Latest Village Scandal (1885)

The New Woman (1892)

Edward Lamson Henry, ctd

Here's a second set from E.L. Henry.

Drafting the Letter (ca. 1871)

 Early Days of Rapid Transit

 East Hampton Beach (1880)

 George Washington at the Battle of Trenton (1870)

[engraved by Illman Brothers after a painting by Henry]

 In East Tennessee (1906)

 Kept In (1889)

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 Leaving Home 

 Mrs. Lydig and Her Daughter Greeting Their Guest (1891-1897)

One Sunday Afternoon (1902)

Edward Lamson Henry

Edward Lamson Henry (1841-1919) was a celebrated painter of rustic genre scenes.  Art professor William T. Oedel wrote of his legacy, "Perhaps no artist played so consistently and so durably to the American cult of nostalgia in the last quarter of the 19th century as Edward Lamson Henry." There is a good biographical essay of Henry online.

 A Chat After Meeting (1871)

 Along the Delaware and Hudson Canal (1907)

 An Informal Call (1895)

At the Watering Trough (1900)

 Can They Go Too? (1877)

 City Point, Virginia, Headquarters of General Grant (1873)

 Coming Home 

Couple on a Horse and Buggy

Charles Frederic Ulrich

Charles Frederic Ulrich (1858-1908) was an American painter who spent his later years as an expatriate in Europe.

 In the Land of Promise (1884)

 Moment Musicale (1883)

 The Glass Engraver (1883)

 Washerwomen, Seville (ca. 1885-1889)

The Village Printing Shop, Haarlem, Holland (1884)

William Trost Richards, ctd

Here's another set of paintings by William Trost Richards.

 Into the Woods (1860)

 Mackerel Cove, Jamestown, Rhode Island (1894)

 October (1863)

 Recruiting Station (Bethlehem) (1862)

 Rocky Cliff with Stormy Sea, Cornwall (1902)

 Seascape at Dusk (1901)

 Sundown, Atlantic City 

 The Tempest (1868)

Woodland Brook (1861)