| LC control no. | n 81052386 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Duncanson, Robert S., 1821-1872 |
| Variant(s) | Duncanson, Robert Seldon, 1821-1872 Duncanson, Robert Scott, 1821-1872 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1821 |
| Death date | 1872-12-21 |
| Place of birth | Fayette (N.Y.) |
| Place of death | Detroit (Mich.) |
| Profession or occupation | Painters |
| Found in | His Robert S. Duncanson: a centennial exhibition, 1972. Robert Scott Duncanson, 1821-1872: Landscape, 1870, c2003: biog. (b. Fayette, NY; d. Detroit, MI, Dec. 21, 1872) N.Y. Times online, July 14, 2011 (viewed Oct. 20, 2011) article: Condemning slavery with a paintbrush (Robert S. Duncanson, African-American painter; middle name often given as Scott but was actually Seldon) Wikipedia, July 8, 2013: (Robert Seldon Duncanson (1821 - Dec. 21, 1872) was an African-American painter associated with the Hudson River School; he is often described incorrectly as Robert Scott Duncanson, the son of a Canadian of Scottish descent, but he was actually descended from freed Virginia slaves) African American National Biography, accessed December 12 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Duncanson, Robert S.; painter; born 1821 in Fayette, New York, United States. He produced a series of American landscapes, such as Western Forest (1857) and Rainbow (1859); donated paintings to support antislavery organizations; in response to the impending Civil War, created the most ambitious easel painting of his career, Land of the Lotus Eaters (1861); escaped in 1863 to Montreal, Canada, visisted England; returned to Cincinnati in 1867; in the late 1860s he developed a severe dementia; died 21 December 1872 in Detroit, Michigan, United States) |
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