Fur Traders Descending the Missouri

A trapper, his son and a chained bear cub glide downriver through luminous morning mist. Bingham's quiet frontier scene is a poem of early American life.

Fur Traders Descending the Missouri

George Caleb Bingham

  • Datec. 1845
  • MovementRealism
  • WhereMetropolitan Museum of Art, New York
  • RegionUnited States