Navigating the West George Caleb Bingham and the River NEW kk

Demy folio, [27.75cm/11inches], full gilt-embossed grey flannel with mylar-protected dust jacket, pp. 199, indexed. Illustrated with b-w halftones, colour plates &tc. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. . The Wall Street Journnal noted: "The painting is George Caleb Bingham’s "Fur Traders Descending the Missouri" (1845), one of the treasures of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American collections and a high point of the fascinating exhibition "Navigating the West: George Caleb Bingham and the River," on view at the Met through Sept. 20. Organized by the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, and the Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Mo., the show concentrates on Bingham’s images inspired by the waterborne traffic on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers—in his lifetime, the great highways of the American frontier—and the men who worked on the rivers’ flatboats and rafts." (by Karen Wilkin Aug. 25, 2015).