Robert S. Duncanson

Robert S. Duncanson
Fayette (en) , 1821
O ya Tiŋgbaŋ	America
Residence	Cincinnati Montréal (mul) London Detroit Monroe
African Americans (en)
Kpibu shee	Detroit, Silimin gɔli December 21, 1872
Woodland Cemetery (en)
Education
Bala yɛlibu, sabbu bee buɣisibu	Silmiinsili
Tuma
Tuma	anfooni yaara, Pɛnta-pɛnta ni muralist (en)
Tuma shee	Canada, Italia, United Kingdom, Cincinnati ni Michigan
Magnum opus	A Dream of Italy (en) Landscape with Rainbow (en)
Nira zaŋti	Hudson River school (en)
Laɣingu	Hudson River school (en)
Nuu tuunbaŋsim balibu	landscape painting (en) portrait (en) still life (en)

Robert Seldon Duncanson (c. 1821 ka daa kpi silimiin goli December biɛɣ'pishi ni yini dali yuuni 1872) daa nyɛla 19th-century American landscapist zaŋ n-ti Europeanima mini Afrikanima. Duncanson nyɛla ŋun niŋ dawama pam Cincinnati, Ohio ka nyɛla ŋun sɔŋ ka bɛ daa piligi Ohio River Valley landscape tradition.

Abbreviated list of artworks

• Portrait of a Mother and Daughter, 1841 (Fulton County Arts Council, Hammonds House, Atlanta, Georgia)
• Trial of Shakespeare, 1843 (Douglass Settlement House, Toledo, Ohio)
• Roses Fancy Still Life, 1843 (National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)
• Mt. Healthy, Ohio, 1844 (National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)
• Drunkard's Plight, 1845 (Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan)
• At the Foot of the Cross, 1846 (Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan)
• Cliff Mine, Lake Superior, 1848 (F. Ward Paine, Jr., Portola Valley, California)
• Mayan Ruins, Yucatan, 1848 (Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio)
• The Belmont Murals, c. 1850–1852 (Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio)
• Blue Hole, Flood Waters, Little Miami River, 1851 (Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio)
• View of Cincinnati, Ohio From Covington, Kentucky, 1851 (Cincinnati Historical Society)
• The Garden of Eden (after Cole), 1852 (High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia)
• Dream of Arcadia (after Cole), 1852 (Private Collection, New York City)
• Uncle Tom and Little Eva, 1853 (Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan)
• Italianate Landscape, 1855 (California African American Museum, Los Angeles, California)
• Robbing the Eagle's Nest, 1856 (National Museum of African American History and Culture)
• Untitled (Landscape), late 1850s (Princeton University Art Museum)
• Landscape with Rainbow, 1859 (National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)
• Land of Lotus Eaters, 1861 (Collection of His Royal Majesty, the King of Sweden)
• Faith, 1862 (National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, Wilberforce, Ohio)
• Vale of Kashmir, 1863 (Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio)
• Silver River, North Carolina, 1863 (The Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, South Carolina)
• Seascape, 1864 (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
• Lake Beauport, 1864 (Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, Canada)
• Lake Saint-Charles, 1864 (Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Québec, Canada)
• A Dream of Italy, 1865 (Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama)
• Cottage Opposite Pass at Ben Lomond, 1866 (Museum of Art, North Carolina Central University, Durham, North Carolina, purchase)
• Mountain Landscape with Cows and Sheep, 1866 (Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey, purchase)
• Loch Long, Scotland, 1867 (National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)
• The Caves, 1869 (Amon Carter Museum of American Art)
• Dog's Head Scotland, 1870 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts)

Gallery

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  Vulture and Its Prey (1844)
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  Portrait of Freeman Cary (c. 1856)
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  Untitled (Landscape)
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  Landscape with Sheep
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  Landscape with Rainbow (1859), Smithsonian American Art Museum
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  On the St. Annes, East Canada (1863–65)
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  Waterfall on Mont-Morency (1864)
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  Mount Oxford (1864)
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  A Dream of Italy (1865)
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  Land of the Lotus Eaters Landscape (1861) Swedish Royal Collection
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  Vesuvius and Pompeii (1870)
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  Ellen's Isle, Loch Katrine (1871)
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  Blue Hole, Flood Waters, Miami River (1851)
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  The Caves (1869), Amon Carter Museum of American Art
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  Mountain Landscape with Cows and Sheep, (1866), Newark Museum
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  Mountain Pool, 1870, Smithsonian American Art Museum
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  Loch Long, 1867, Smithsonian American Art Museum

Exhibitions

• 1842: Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Statuary, Western Art Union, Cincinnati, Ohio
• 1843: Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Statuary, Western Art Union, Cincinnati, Ohio
• 1864: Art Association of Montreal, Montreal, Canada
• 1865: Dublin Exhibition, Art Association of Montreal, Ireland
• 1871: Western Art Gallery, Detroit, Michigan
• 1943: Balmoral Castle, Scotland, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
• 1953: Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
• 1955: Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
• 1961: Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis, Indiana
• 1967: Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
• 1970: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
• 1971: Bowdoin College, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brunswick, Maine
• 1972: Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
• 1972: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
• 1976: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
• 1979: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
• 1983: National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
• 1992: National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
• 1996: Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
• 1999: To Conserve a Legacy - American Art from History, Black Colleges and Universities, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City
• 2003: Then and Now: Selection of 19-20th Century Art by African American Artists, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
• 2009: Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio

Lihimi m-pahi

• List of Hudson River School artists
• List of African-American visual artists

External links

• American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Duncanson (see index)
• Ohio Collection, Dayton Museum of Art
• artcyclopedia
• Long Island University