June is National Rose Month!Robert Scott Duncanson painted this lovely rose bouquet, a still life from the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection.
Everything Is Coming up Roses
June is National Rose Month!Robert Scott Duncanson painted this lovely rose bouquet, a still life from the Smithsonian American Art Museum collection.
Robert Scott Duncanson was the first and most accomplished nineteenth-century African American landscape artist.
Probably a self-taught painter, Duncanson focused on the harmony and grace of the natural world rather than the awe-inspiring forces of nature so popular with his contemporaries. In addition to his work as a landscape artist, Duncanson was well known for his portraits of abolitionist patrons and his beautiful still lifes.
Source: National Museum of American Art (CD-ROM) (New York and Washington D.C.: MacMillan Digital in cooperation with the National Museum of American Art, 1996).
Pictured: Robert S. Duncanson, 1821/22–1872, Roses Still Life, about 1842–48, oil, 24 x 19 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Leonard Granoff.