LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on board

Measurements:

7.99 in. (20.30 cm.) (height) by 10.00 in. (25.40 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed R.S. Duncanson. and dated 1850. (lower right); also inscribed Carp. River./Lake.Superior./By. R.S. Duncanson./Cincinnati Ohio/1850 (on the reverse)

Exhibited:

Cincinnati, Ohio, Western Art Union, 1850, no. 4170. Ithaca, New York, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, . The American Landscape , January-February 1995. Annville, Pennsylvania, Suzanne H. Arnold Gallery, Lebanon Valley, . Passages: Images of Transition in 19th-Century American Landscape Painting , August-October 1995. Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland Museum of American Art; University Park, Pennsylvania, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University; Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum; New York, The National Academy, . All That Is Glorious Around Us: Paintings from the Hudson River School, August 1997-September 1999, p. 60, illustrated p. 61. Fredericksburg, Virginia, University of Mary Washington Galleries, . All That Is Glorious: Paintings from the Hudson River School , October-December 2005

Literature:

Joseph D. Ketner, . The Emergence of the African-American Artist: Robert S. Duncanson, 1821-1872 , Columbia, Missouri, 1993, no. 31, pp. 30-31, 193, illustrated fig. 17, p. 32

Provenance:

W.B. McLellan, Waynesville, Ohio, 1850. Private collection (sold: Sotheby's, New York, October 25, 1985, lot 11). Private collection (acquired at the above sale). Acquired by the present owner, by 1995