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  • Robert S. Duncanson, Landscape with Rainbow, 1859, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Leonard and Paula Granoff, 1983.95.160

Gallery Label
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 toward the nearby cottage, reinforcing the sense that man lives in harmony with nature. Duncanson’s vision of rural America as Arcadia, a landscape akin to paradise, is a characteristic feature of his work, a late hope for peace before the onset of Civil War.
Title
Landscape with Rainbow
Artist
Robert S. Duncanson
Date
1859
On View
  1. Smithsonian American Art Museum
  2. 2nd Floor
  3. East Wing
Dimensions
30 x 52 1/4 in. (76.3 x 132.7 cm.)
Copyright
Credit Line

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Gift of Leonard and Paula Granoff

Mediums
oil
Mediums Description
oil on canvas
Classifications
Painting
Keywords
  • Occupation – farm – dairy
  • Animal – cattle
  • Animal – dog
  • Figure group – male and female
  • Children
  • Landscape – phenomenon – rainbow
Object Number
1983.95.160
Palette
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