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Robert S.Duncanson
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Oil_on_canvas,_28-1/2_x_49_in_
Date_ca._1870(1870)
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| Oil on canvas, 28-1/2 x 49 in
Date ca. 1870(1870)
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American artist .
1821-1872
A self-taught mulatto artist and a landscape painter of the Hudson River school tradition, Duncanson was the first Afro-American artist to receive international recognition. Born into a family of painters and handymen, Duncanson first worked as a house-painter and glazier in Monroe, MI. By 1841 he was in Cincinnati, OH, where he learnt to paint by executing portraits and copying prints. Throughout the 1840s he travelled as an itinerant artist between Cincinnati, Monroe and Detroit.
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