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Title: George Caleb Bingham, Portrait of Martha Washington
Date: 1856
Description: George Caleb Bingham painted this copy after Gilbert Stuart's portrait of First Lady Martha Washington, leaving it unfinished as Stuart had done; 30 inches high x 24 inches wide, gift of the artist.

Title: George Caleb Bingham, Portrait of George Washington
Date: 1856
Description: George Caleb Bingham painted this copy after Gilbert Stuart's portrait of President George Washington, leaving it unfinished as Stuart had done; 30 inches high x 24 inches wide, gift of the artist.

Title: Charles Deas, Portrait of Robert Watts
Date: 1838
Description: Portrait of Robert Watts, nephew of the artist, oil on canvas, 17 inches by 14 inches, 1838.

Title: Chester Harding, William Clark as Governor of the Territory of Missouri
Description: Chester Harding painted this life-size portrait of William Clark in St. Louis; 94 inches high by 60 inches wide, oil on canvas, c. 1820

Title: Charles Deas, Portrait of a Man
Date: 1839
Description: Portrait of a man, possibly of the Atwater family, oil on canvas, 12 1/8 inches by 10 /8 inches, 1839

Title: Charles Deas, Winnebago (Wa-kon-cha-hi-re-ga) in a Bark Lodge
Date: 1842
Description: Winnebago (now Ho-Chunk) chieftain painted by Charles Deas by 1842, oil on canvas laid down on masonite, 36 inches high by 30 inches wide.

Title: Charles Deas, Portrait of a Woman
Date: 1840
Description: Portrait of a woman, possibly of the Atwater family, oil on paperboard attached to wood panel, 12 1/8 inches by 9 3/4 inches, 1840

Title: Charles Deas, Western landscape with Waterfall and Figure
Date: 1847
Description: Landscape painting of a scene in the American west, oil on paper or card, 6 inches by 9 inches, signed and dated Charles Deas 1847 lower left.

Title: Charles Deas, Portrait of Gratz A. Moses
Date: 1842
Description: Portrait of Gratz Ashe Moses (1838-1901), oil on canvas, 19 inches by 15 inches, 1842

Title: St. Louis Courthouse
Description: Miniature drawing of the St. Louis courthouse, pencil on wove paper, not signed or dated, 2 1/4 inches by 2 1/2 inches

Title: M-511 Leopold Gast & Brother Lithograph Company
Description: These graphite drawings were the work of the Leopold Gast & Brother Lithograph Company, St. Louis, Missouri in the mid-19th century. Some drawings are signed by the artists that include John Gast (1842-1896), Leopold Gast (1810-1898), Paulus Roetter (1806-1894), and Theodore Anders, however most are unsigned. The company was founded in St. Louis in 1852 by brothers Leopold and August Gast (1819

Title: M-289 James Godwin Scott Collection
Description: This collection documents the career of James Godwin Scott (1931-2015), from the watercolors he produced in St. Louis of life along the Mississippi River - both urban and rural - and other scenes of the city's development, to the dramatic abstract acrylic paintings of his later career in Arizona. Accompanying the paintings are letters, clippings, sketchbooks and other paper ephemera related to

Title: Verein card with Christian imagery
Description: Design with central area having indistinct text including the word "Verein" (German for club or charitable organization) in the header, with a border of eleven vignettes of Christian religious subjects including St. George and the dragon, angels, and an alter with cross and prayer book. Pencil and ink on wove paper, unsigned, 4 1/2 inches by 6 6 1/4 inches

Title: Landscape with train, boats, and building
Description: Drawing of large complex of buildings on an isolated hill adjacent to a winding river on the right where two riverboats are visible and on the left a railroad train crosses a flat plain toward the hill. Pencil on wove paper, not signed or dated, 2 3/4 inches by 6 inches

Title: St. Louis Cotton Factory
Description: Drawing of cotton factory complex, pencil on wove paper, not signed or dated, 3 3/4 inches by 6 inches

Title: Workers on railroad car
Date: 1853
Description: Drawing of workers on a railroad flatcar, pencil on wove paper, signed bottom center Paulus Roetter and dated lower right 1853, 2 3/16 inches by 5 1/8 inches

Title: Workers quarrying
Description: Drawing of men striking rocks with picks below a cliff with a jagged tree trunk; two men stand on the cliff. Pencil on wove paper, signed lower right Paulus Roetter, no date, 4 inches by 3 1/4 inches

Title: Sugar refinery and shot tower
Date: 1854
Description: Drawing of St. Louis Steam Sugar Refinery, locatd on Lewis, O'Fallon and Bates Streets, St. Louis, owned by Belcher & Brothers, next to the St. Louis Shot Tower operated by Kennet, Simonds & Co., pencil on wove paper, not signed, c.1854, 3 1/2 inches by 4 3/4 inches

Title: Workers
Description: Drawing of men working in what may be a pig iron processing furnace, pencil on wove paper, unsigned, no date, 4 inches by 3 1/4 inches

Title: Youth in Landscape
Date: 1865-05
Description: Drawing of young person kneeling on a narrow path scooping water from a stream with their hand while a dog drinks from the stream. Above the figure is a rectangle with initials in a stylized font; potentially a bookplate design. Pencil on irregularly shaped wove paper, initialed "L.G." lower left and dated May 1865, 5 inches by 2 1/4 inches

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