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Lot 107: Robert Scott Duncanson (1821-1872)

Est: $120,000 USD - $180,000 USD
Christie'sNew York, NY, USMay 25, 2006

Item Overview

Description

River Scene
oil on canvas
28 1/2 x 52 in. (72.4 x 132.1 cm.)

Artist or Maker

Exhibited

Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, Robert S. Duncanson: A Centennial Exhibition, March 16-April 30, 1972, no. 35.

Literature

Cincinnati Art Museum, Robert S. Duncanson: A Centennial Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, pp. 36, 41, fig. 35, illustrated.
J.D. Parks, Robert S. Duncanson: 19th Century Black Romantic Painter, Washington D.C., 1980, p. 42.
J.D. Ketner, The Emergence of the African-American Artist: Robert S. Duncanson 1821-1872, Columbia, Missouri, 1993.

Provenance

Murdock Williams, Yellow Springs, Ohio.
Margaret Williams Rouse, Cincinnati, Ohio.
By descent to the present owner.

Auction Details

Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture

by
Christie's
May 25, 2006, 12:00 AM EST

20 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, 10020, US