A copse of vegetation frames the central scene of this work, whose original title had to be changed in order to avoid controversy about tacitly endorsing miscegenation.
A copse of vegetation frames the central scene of this work, whose original title had to be changed in order to avoid controversy about tacitly endorsing miscegenation.* One of the figures leans forward and is dressed in blue, while the other wears a red shirt, a Phrygian cap, and looks out at the spectator. The red dot in the dead duck's breast directs attention to a bale that also has a fringed bag and red sash on it. That it is dawn is indicated by the long streaks on the title waterway's surface, this coming light is contrasted with the dark fur of the cat that sits at the prow of the canoe, in for ten points, what work that depicts two trappers floating down a Midwestern river, a work by George Caleb Bingham.
A copse of vegetation frames the central scene of this work, whose original title had to be changed in order to avoid controversy about tacitly endorsing miscegenation.
{Fur Traders Descending the Missouri}  *[the original title was French Trapper and his Half-Breed Son]