Land of the Lotos Eaters
(Swedish Royal Collection, Stockholm / Wikimedia Commons)
Robert S. Duncanson
Robert S. Duncanson
Robert S. Duncanson
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Columbia, South Carolina
Join CMA Chief Curator Will South for a special talk. This lecture,
sponsored by the Friends of African American Art & Culture, is
presented in celebration of the Museum’s recent acquisition of
Duncanson’s beautiful oil on canvas, Landscape with Fantastic Architecture.
After the talk, enjoy light refreshments and be among the first Museum
patrons to see this wonderful painting, on view for the first time that
evening.
Though famous in his lifetime and called the "greatest landscape painter
in the West," after his death in 1872 Robert Duncanson faded into
obscurity. In recent decades, however, his work has been the subject of
several books and major exhibitions. America has rediscovered an artist
of exceptional talent who painted some of the most important murals in
America prior to the Civil War and whose work was purchased by the King
of Sweden. We have found an artist who envisioned a life without limits,
a life beyond the role of the slave or laborer into which
African-Americans had been cast. Against all odds, he made himself into
an artist and forged a place in history as one of the finest painters of
the 19th century.
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