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Shooting for the Beef

Artist: George Caleb Bingham, American, 1811-1879
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dates: 1850
Dimensions: 33 3/8 x 49 in. (84.8 x 124.5 cm)
Signature: Signed lower left: "G.C. Bingham / 1850."
Collections: American Art
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 40.342
Credit Line: Dick S. Ramsay Fund
Image: Overall, 40.342_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

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