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  1. In 1846, 'The Jolly Flatboatmen' Did A Different Sort Of River Dance - he Jolly Flatboatmen is part of the Met exhibition

    by , 06-17-2015 at 08:43 PM


    George Caleb Bingham's The Jolly Flatboatmen (1846) became wildly popular after an East Coast art union bought it and started disseminating it as a print. National Gallery of Art

    Eight Midwestern river men — all jolly fellows — traveled from St. Louis to New York recently on a museum-to-museum voyage. George Caleb Bingham's 1846 painting ...