Boatmen's Bank - Opening the Art Exhibit

Saint Louis Globe-Democrat

1964

picture

Banks
Art
Painting
Bingham, George Caleb, 1811-1879.

Saint Louis (Mo.)

1960-1969

"Opening the bicentennial art exhibit of the Boatmen's National Bank are, (left to right,) Harry F. Harrington, Boatmen's chairman and president; William Pagenstecher, vice president and curator of the bank's art collection; and Frank Faquin, who prepared the special exhibit in the bank's lobby. They are standing by George Caleb Bingham's The County Election, one of three paintings in the artist's "Political Series" which are part of the bank's collection. These paintings, which were done between 1851 and 1855, depict three phases of a typical Missouri political campaign at about the time Boatmen's was founded in 1847. Bingham, while best known as a painter, also served in various state offices, and took part in numerous political campaigns for other candidates."

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