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| Keywords: Lighter Relieving a Steamboat Aground by George Caleb Bingham, 1847.jpg Artwork Creator George Caleb Bingham Lighter Releiving a Steamboat Aground 1847 oil on canvas cm 77 91 9 White House Washington D C United States Notes from Kloss William et al Art in the White House A Nation's Pride Washington D C The White House Historical Association 2008 <br> Instead of painting 'the never-ending transit of steamers' that was the reality of the 1840s Bingham has wrapped his picture in the dream of the past embodied in his monumental group of idle boatmen raptly listening to stories The scene is unhurried locked in place by geometry--a pyramid of strikingly foreshortened interlocked figures carefully aligned with the picture plane The steamboat in the distance has run aground on the shoal The primary focus is on the self-sufficient boatmen Having removed cargo from the steamer 'lightened' it so it can float free from the shoal they have turned from it to listen to their storyteller The White House Historical Association PD-art Other versions http //www whitehouseresearch org/assetbank-whha/action/viewAsset id 45 <gallery> File George Caleb Bingham Lighter Relieving the Steamboat Aground jpg </gallery> PD-old-100 DEFAULTSORT George Caleb Bingham Lighter Relieving the Steamboat Aground Lighter Relieving a Steamboat Aground by George Caleb Bingham | ||||
