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George Caleb Bingham ( March 20 , 1811July 7 , 1879 ) was an American realist artist, whose work depicts American life in the frontier lands, along the Missouri River .

Born in Virginia , Bingham's family moved to Missouri when he was eight years old. He apprenticed with a cabinet maker and with a portrait artist, identified by some as Chester Harding . He spent three months at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, but returned to Missouri, whose landscapes figured prominently in his work.

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