Fur Traders Descending the Missouri | George Caleb Bingham | 1845 Size:24"x18" Through her expressive brushwork and

Through her expressive brushwork and luminous palette

evoking both solitude and harmony in the winter forest

A contemplative young woman

a young child leans on a window sill

Fur Traders Descending the Missouri | George Caleb Bingham | 1845 Size:24"x18" Through her expressive brushwork andOne of Bingham's most famous paintings, this work is owned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Painted around 1845 in the style called luminism by some historians of American art, it was originally entitled, French Trader, Half breed Son. The American Art Union thought the title potentially controversial and renamed it when it was first exhibited. It reflected the reality of fur trappers and traders frequently marrying Native American women