#Robert Scott Duncanson

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Still Life with Fruit and Nuts

Robert Scott Duncanson

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Daily Painting

Robert Scott Duncanson THE CAVES (1969)

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Online Exhibits

National Museum of African American History and Culture: Afrofuturism: A History of Black FuturesAfrofuturism: A History of Black Futures explores the past, present, and future of this dynamic concept in an exhibition that features the various people, unique themes and radical artistry that have given voice to it. Featuring hundreds of objects and images with several multimedia displays, this exhibition explores the history of Afrofuturist expression and culture through literature, music, art, film, fashion, activism and more.

U.S. National Archives: Black Arts Movement (1965-1975) The Black Arts Movement was a Black nationalism movement that focused on music, literature, drama, and the visual arts made up of Black artists and intellectuals. This was the cultural section of the Black Power movement, in that its participants shared many of the ideologies of Black self-determination, political beliefs, and African American culture. The Black Arts Movement started in 1965 when poet Amiri Baraka [LeRoi Jones] established the Black Arts Repertory Theater in Harlem, New York, as a place for artistic expression. Artists associated with this movement include Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, James Baldwin, Gil Scott-Heron, and Thelonious Monk. Records at the National Archives related to the Black Arts Movement primarily focus on individual artists and their interaction with various Federal agencies.

Google Arts & Culture: African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era and Beyond presents works dating from the early 1920s through the 2000s by Black artists who participated in the multivalent dialogues about art, identity, and the rights of the individual that engaged American society throughout the twentieth century.

National Gallery of Art: Black Art & Artists in Our Collection Explore works from Black artists across centuries, mediums, and geographies, ranging from 19th century still life painter Robert Seldon Duncanson to modern and contemporary pieces by Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Alma Thomas, Sam Gilliam, Kara Walker, Hank Willis Thomas, and more.

Smithsonian American Art Museum: African American Art SAAM is home to one of the most significant collections of works by African American artists in the world. These artworks span three centuries of creative expression in various media, including painting, sculpture, textiles, and photography, and represent numerous artistic styles, from realism to neoclassicism, abstract expressionism, modernism, and folk art. From a rare group of photographs by early African American studios to an important group of works by self-taught artist Bill Traylor to William H. Johnson’s vibrant portrayals of faith and family, to Mickalene Thomas’s contemporary exploration of Black female identity, the museum’s holdings reflect its long-standing commitment to Black artists and the acquisition, preservation, and display of their work.

NYPL: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Art and Artifacts Division The Art and Artifacts Division collects, documents, preserves, and interprets art and artifacts by and about peoples of African heritage throughout the world. Fine and applied art and material culture objects from the seventeenth century to the present are collected, with emphasis on the visual arts of the twentieth century in the United States and Africa.

Google Arts & Culture: Beat by Beat This interactive online exhibit was created as a celebration of 50 years of hip hop in collaboration with The Kennedy Center, The Bronx County Historical Society, The Museum at FIT, The National Museum of African American History and Culture, The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Hip Hop Education Center, and HipHop2020 Archive.

Streaming Videos from the MCPHS Libraries

The Amazing Nina Simone She was left out of Civil Rights history, erased by jazz critics, and forgotten by most Americans because no one knew how to categorize her greatness. But throughout the 1960s, Nina Simone was both loved and feared for her outspoken vision of Black Freedom. Her musical proclamations like "Mississippi Goddam", and her iconic style created an alternative voice that continues to empower with its unrelenting appeal for justice. Now, a new documentary reveals the real Nina Simone through over 50 intimate interviews with those who best knew the artistry and intentions of one America's true musical geniuses. With new insights into her journey from Classical Music and the segregated American South, Nina's legacy is chartered all the way to the South of France where she finally found freedom.

JazzJazz has been called the purest expression of American democracy; a music built on individualism and compromise, independence and cooperation. Ken Burns follows the growth and development of jazz music from the gritty streets of New Orleans to Chicago's south side, the speakeasies of Kansas city and to Times Square.

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child Director Tamra Davis pays homage to her friend in this definitive documentary but also delves into Basquiat as an iconoclast. His dense, bebop-influenced neoexpressionist work emerged while minimalist, conceptual art was the fad; as a successful Black artist, he was constantly confronted by racism and misconceptions. Much can be gleaned from insider interviews and archival footage, but it is Basquiat's own words and work that powerfully convey the mystique and allure of both the artist and the man.

Videos to Check Out from Your Local Library

Summer of Soul (...or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary, part music film, part historical record, created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture, and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park). The footage was largely forgotten, until now. This documentary shines a light on the importance of history to our spiritual well-being and stands as a testament to the healing power of music during times of unrest, both past, and present. The feature includes concert performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, The 5th Dimension, and more.

Through a Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People The first documentary to explore the role of photography in shaping the identity, aspirations and social emergence of African Americans from slavery to the present, Through a Lens Darkly probes the recesses of American history by discovering images that have been suppressed, forgotten and lost. Bringing to light the hidden and unknown photos shot by both professional and vernacular African American photographers, the film opens a window into lives, experiences and perspectives of Black families that is absent from the traditional historical canon. These images show a much more complex and nuanced view of American culture and society and its founding ideals. Inspired by Deborah Willis's book Reflections in Black and featuring the works of Carrie Mae Weems, Lorna Simpson, Anthony Barboza, Hank Willis Thomas, Coco Fusco, Clarissa Sligh and many others, Through a Lens Darkly introduces the viewer to a diverse yet focused community of storytellers who transform singular experiences into a communal journey of discovery – and a call to action.

Black Art: In the Absence of Light At the heart of this feature documentary is the groundbreaking "Two Centuries of Black American Art" exhibition curated by the late African American artist and scholar David Driskell in 1976. Held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, this pioneering exhibit featured more than 200 works of art by 63 artists and cemented the essential contributions of Black artists in America in the 19th and 20th centuries. The exhibit would eventually travel to the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the Brooklyn Museum. The film shines a light on the exhibition's extraordinary impact on generations of African American artists who have staked a claim on their rightful place within the 21st-century art world.

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View of Mount Washington, from near North Conway, New Hampshire, (ca. 1860 - 1865).

Albert Bierstadt, (Solingen, Germany, 1830 - Nueva York, 1902)

(Bierstadt Beyond the Hudson: The Singular Achievements of Robert Scott Duncanson. NY History)

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Minnehaha

Robert Scott Duncanson

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Robert S. Duncanson (1821-1872) “Blue Hole, Flood Waters, Miami River" (1851) Oil on canvas Hudson River School Located in the Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

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Robert S. Duncanson | Smithsonian American Art Museum

Robert Scott Duncanson (African American, born New York, 1821 - died Detroit, Michigan, 1872)

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Chapultpec Castle by Robert Scott Duncanson 1860.

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African-American Artists: 

 Landscape with Sheep (Date: ?) by  Robert Scott Duncanson (1821-1872)

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Vale of Kashmir, Robert Scott Duncanson, 1870

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Happy Birthday to Jacob Lawrence who was born on this day in 1917.

Jacob Lawrence (September 7, 1917 – June 9, 2000) was an American painter known for his portrayals of African-American life. As well as a painter, storyteller, and interpreter, he was an educator. Lawrence is among the best-known 20th-century African-American painters, bringing the African-American experience to life using blacks and browns juxtaposed with vivid colors. He was only 23 years old when he gained national recognition with his 60-panel Migration Series, painted on cardboard. The series depicted the 20th century Great Migration of African-Americans from the rural South to the urban North.

In the 1930s, Lawrence received early artistic training at the Utopia Children’s Center in Harlem where he was encouraged to pursue his passion. He received scholarships and grants to further his art education and was employed as a painter by the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression. He developed a unique style of narrative painting that often featured a flat picture plane with bold and colorful figures. Aspects of life in Harlem during the Great Depression inspired the colors, shapes, and patterns in Lawrence’s subsequent works.

Lawrence employed a critical and socially conscious lens in his visual storytelling of the African-American experience, as evident in the image shown here entitled “Bus.” Lawrence depicts segregated seating, and the visual contrast between the white people in the front and the Black people seated in the back is stark. Not only is there plenty of space upfront, but the Black people crowded in the rear of the bus are painted without visible eyes or mouths, often looking down.

Image shown: Bus, 1941 Gouache on paper 18 5/16”x 21 7/8” Image from: African American art : 200 years : 40 distinctive voices reveal the breadth of nineteenth and twentieth century art [exhibition coordinator, Michael Rosenfeld ; catalogue essays, Jonathan P. Binstock, Lowery Stokes Sims]. New York, NY : Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, [2008] 156 p. : col. ill. ; 34 cm. Summary: Presents a pictorial review, accompanied by biographical essays, of the many artworks created by African Americans over two centuries, on special exhibit at the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in New York in 2008. Exhibited artists: Charles Alston, Benny Andrews, Edward Mitchell Bannister, Richmond Barthé, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Eldzier Cortor, Harold Cousins, Beauford Delaney, Joseph Delaney, Aaron Douglas, Robert Scott Duncanson, William Edmondson, Allan Freelon, Palmer Hayden, Joshua Johnson, Sargent Johnson, William H. Johnson, Lois Mailou Jones, Jacob Lawrence, Hughie Lee-Smith, Edmonia Lewis, Norman Lewis, Archibald J. Motley Jr., Marion Perkins, Horace Pippin, Charles Ethan Porter, Betye Saar, August Savage, William Edouard Scott, Charles Sebree, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Alma Thomas, Bob Thompson, Laura Wheeler Waring, Charles White, Ellis Wilson, Hale Woodruff. English Catalog of an exhibition held at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, Jan. 11-Mar. 15, 2008. Author / Creator Rosenfeld, Michael. Binstock, Jonathan P., 1966- Sims, Lowery Stokes. Michael Rosenfeld Gallery HOLLIS number: 990114867820203941

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The first African-American artist to gain international recognition for his paintings, Robert Scott Duncanson painted scenes throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Canada, and Scotland. His work was admired by Queen Victoria, Alfred Lord Tennyson and the King of Sweden. Today his paintings can be seen at the Smithsonian Institution's American Art Museum as well as the Cincinnati Art Museum and Taft Museum of Art. Click Here to learn more about this famous artist and his connections to Cincinnati.

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A View in the Laurentian Mountains near Qubec, 1865.

Robert Scott Duncanson, (African-American artist, 1821 - 1872)

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Pompeii by Robert Scott Duncanson (1855)

Style: Pastoral

Genre: 19th Century Landscape

Media: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 53.3 x 43.2 cm

Robert Scott Duncanson was one of the most prominent Black painters of his day, first exhibiting his works in 1842 in the Cincinnati area. He gained patrons as a result of his artistic skill, and in 1853 the Freeman's Aid Society of Ohio sent him abroad to Europe to study art, allowing him to participate in a rite of passage for American artists. While in Europe, he visited the ruins of Pompeii and painted his work of the same name, depicting the ruins in the Pastoral style of the era. The painting, however, contains elements of darkness that can be understood in terms of the political landscape in America at the time, with the country thick in the throes of armed combat between slavery supporters and abolitionists in Bleeding Kansas. Viewed through the contextual lens of the time, the painted ruins of Pompeii represent an allegory for the institution of slavery itself: these are the remnants of a construct whose time has passed, and the threat of civil war looms, smoldering on the horizon. Pompeii represents the beginning of Duncanson’s Civil War- and Reconstruction-era works, with subsequent paintings shifting styles from darkly Pastoral to Sublime, interpreting the intense strife and extreme violence of the era through visceral landscapes showcasing the brutality of nature.

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Lake Saint-Charles, 1864 by Robert Scott Duncanson #Quebec @quebecregion #quebeccite #QCAccent @mnbaq #mnbaq #RobertScottDuncanson (at Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (MNBAQ)) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6CC-P2HiUC/?igshid=1qkt355wzsjoj