This work was submitted by its artist as a contrasting companion piece to an identically-sized canvas The Concealed Enemy. The background features only a small clump of green foliage in the center. The grizzled character on the right wears a stocking cap and a red shirt while smoking a pipe, while the other character in a blue shirt appears more amicable and sprawls lazily across the center of the canvas. On the left, we see a shadowy black cat which appears to be a pet since it is on a tether; the central character holds a pouch and a dead duck. The two characters depicted are father and son, though the son is half-white. Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1932, FTP, name this classic of American genre painting, in which George Caleb Bingham depicts two 
This work was submitted by its artist as a contrasting companion piece to an identically-sized canvas The Concealed Enemy. The background features only a small clump of green foliage in the center. The grizzled character on the right wears a stocking cap and a red shirt while smoking a pipe, while the other character in a blue shirt appears more amicable and sprawls lazily across the center of the canvas. On the left, we see a shadowy black cat which appears to be a pet since it is on a tether; the central character holds a pouch and a dead duck. The two characters depicted are father and son, though the son is half-white. Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1932, FTP, name this classic of American genre painting, in which George Caleb Bingham depicts two men peacefully floating down a certain river.
This work was submitted by its artist as a contrasting companion piece to an identically-sized canvas The Concealed Enemy.
Fur Traders Descending the Missouri