id: 125236 accession number: 1947.198 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.198 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:05.164000 View of Lake Pepin, Minnesota, 1862. Robert S. Duncanson (American, 1821–1872). Oil on canvas; framed: 38.5 x 63 x 6.5 cm (15 3/16 x 24 13/16 x 2 9/16 in.); unframed: 30.2 x 54.5 cm (11 7/8 x 21 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of William Macbeth 1947.198 title: View of Lake Pepin, Minnesota title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1862 creation date earliest: 1862 creation date latest: 1862 current location: creditline: Gift of William Macbeth copyright: --- culture: America, 19th century technique: oil on canvas department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Robert S. Duncanson (American, 1821–1872) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 38.5 x 63 x 6.5 cm (15 3/16 x 24 13/16 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 30.2 x 54.5 cm (11 7/8 x 21 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower left: R.S.D. / 1862; signed on verso: Valley of Lake Pepin/Minnesota/Painted By R.S.D. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: American Negro Artists of the 19th Century opening date: 1967-02-01T05:00:00 American Negro Artists of the 19th Century. Howard University, Washington, D.C., DC (organizer) (February 1-March 25, 1967). title: XIXth Century Afro-American Artists, Bannister and Duncanson opening date: 1972-01-09T05:00:00 XIXth Century Afro-American Artists, Bannister and Duncanson. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (organizer) (January 9-February 6, 1972); The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (March 15-April 30, 1972). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': "Painters of Ohio's Past. The Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH (June 5-July 5,1953); The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH (July 15-August 16,1953); The Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH (September 1- September 22, 1953); The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (4 October 4-26,1953).", 'opening_date': '1953-06-05T04:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Robert S. Duncanson: A Centennial Exhibition. Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (March 16-April 30, 1972).', 'opening_date': '1972-03-16T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Two Centuries of Black American Art. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (September 30-November 21, 1976); The High Museum of Art, Alanta, GA (January 8-February 20, 1977); Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX (March 30-May 15, 1977); The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (25 June 25-August 21,1977).', 'opening_date': '1976-09-30T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Eric Lundberg, Tuttle's Book Shop, Rutland, VT, 1945, sold to William Macbeth date: -1945 footnotes: citations: (William Macbeth, Inc., New York, NY, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: 1945-1947 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1947- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Porter, James A. Ten Afro-American Artists of the Nineteenth Century. Washington DC: Gallery of Art, Howard University, 1967. page number: Mentioned: p. 14 url: Duncanson, Robert S. Robert S. Duncanson: A Centennial Exhibition. Cincinnati, OH: Cincinnati Art Museum,1972. page number: Mentioned: p. 13; Reproduced: p. 26 url: Coen, Rena Neumann. Painting and Sculpture in Minnesota, 1820-1914. Minneapolis, MN: Published by the University of Minnesota Press for the University Gallery of the University of Minnesota, 1976. page number: Mentioned: p. 32-50; Reproduced: p. 43 url: Driskell, David C., and Leonard Simon. Two Centuries of Black American Art: [Exhibition], Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, the Brooklyn Museum. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1976. page number: Mentioned: p. 33, 124 url: Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland,OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. page number: Reproduced: p. 67 url: Ketner, Joseph D., and Robert S. Duncanson. The Emergence of the African-American Artist: Robert S. Duncanson, 1821-1872. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1993. page number: Mentioned: p. 112-133, 156-176, 198-203, 219-222; Reproduced: fig. 102 url: Adams, Henry. What's American About American Art?: A Gallery Tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008. page number: Reproduced: p. 81 url: Cole, Mark, Amy Sparks, and Rebecca Michaels. African American Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013. page number: Reproduced: p. 16 url: Zellman, Michael David. American Art Analog. New York, NY: Chelsea House Publishers in association with American Art Analog, 1986. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 401-410, vol. 2 url: Green, Tyler. Emerson's Nature and the Artists: Idea As Landscape, Landscape As Idea. Munich: Prestel, 2021. page number: Reproduced: P. 123, fig. 57 url: Arabindan-Kesson, Anna. "From Poetry to Paint: Robert S. Duncanson and the Song of Hiawatha." In Intermedia, Ursula Frohne, ed., 86-121. Chicago: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2022. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 102, fig. 8 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.198/1947.198_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.198/1947.198_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1947.198/1947.198_full.tif