Robert S. Duncanson, Landscape with Rainbow
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Leonard and Paula Granoff · Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian Open Access (CC0)View original →
Robert S. Duncanson

Landscape with Rainbow

1859

Current Collection

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C., United States

Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
76.3 × 132.7 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-134181

Robert Seldon Duncanson was America’s best known African American painter in the years surrounding the Civil War. Based in Cincinnati, he was supported by abolitionists who bought his paintings and sponsored his trip to Europe to study from the Old Masters. In this pastoral landscape, a young couple strolls through fertile pastureland, toward a house at the end of a rainbow. The cattle head home …

Provenance

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Leonard and Paula Granoff

Registry history

  • 1859 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum

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