Tag: people
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George Caleb Bingham: The Boonslick’s Own Painter of River Life
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When the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York acquired a canvas called Fur Traders Descending the Missouri in 1933, curators were rediscovering a painter the art world had largely set aside since his death…
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Annie Fisher: The Boone County Baker Who Built a Nationwide Empire
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Before overnight shipping existed, before anyone dreamed of ordering food from across the country with a click, orders for Annie Fisher’s beaten biscuits were arriving in Columbia from New York, Denver, and Los Angeles. Fisher…