EXHIBITION AND SALE · OPENING THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2026, 5:00 PM

Kodner Gallery presents Missouri Masters, an exhibition and sale devoted to three artists who defined the art of the state across more than a century: Thomas Hart Benton, Oscar Edmund Berninghaus and George Caleb Bingham.

Featuring a rare collection of Thomas Hart Benton's finest lithographs; a never-before-exhibited group of drawings and paintings by Oscar Edmund Berninghaus of the barytes mines of Potosi, Missouri, together with his monumental The Discovery of St. Louis, depicting Pierre Laclède and Auguste Chouteau; and four exceptionally rare engravings by the nineteenth-century Missouri master George Caleb Bingham. Every work is guaranteed authentic and available for purchase.

VIEW THE BENTON CATALOGUE   ·   ALL BENTON LITHOGRAPHS   ·   THE STORY OF BARYTES   ·   SCHEDULE A PRIVATE VIEWING

THE STORY OF BARYTES

Around 1920 Oscar Edmund Berninghaus turned to the barytes mines of Washington County, Missouri, near Potosi and Tiff, painting and drawing the miners, their families and the ox and mule teams that hauled the ore to the shipping bins. The three paintings and one of the drawings are shown below; the complete group of three paintings and seven drawings, shown for the first time, has its own viewing room.

VIEW ALL TEN BARYTES WORKS  ·  READ THE STORY OF BARYTES