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Painting
Landscape in the Smoky Mountains, Tennessee
Robert Seldon Duncanson
1851-1853
Category
Paintings
Creator/Artist/Maker
Robert Seldon Duncanson
Place of Origin
South; United States; North America
Materials
- Oil paint
- Canvas
Museum Object Number
2018.0037 A
Credit Line/Donor
Museum purchase with funds drawn from the Centenary Fund
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Object Number
2018.0037 A
Object Name
Painting
Title
Landscape in the Smoky Mountains, Tennessee
Category
Paintings
Creator (Role)
Robert Seldon Duncanson
Place of Origin
South; United States; North America
Origin Notes
Short Mountain is a Southern landscape. It depicts a panoramic view with a stream, pasture and mountains inspired by the southwestern regions of Hawkins County, Tennessee, the Clinch River, and the French Broad in North Carolina. Between 1850 and 1852, Duncanson undertook several sketching trips, not only traveling up the Ohio River through Pennsylvania, New York and Michigan, but also going south to Kentucky, Tennessee and North Carolina where he travelled at least as far south as Asheville. One of the earliest known landscapes from this period, A View of Asheville, North Carolina (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) is signed and dated from the year 1850. The following year, Duncanson exhibited another Southern composition, The French Broad, North Carolina, at the Western Art-Union gallery where the work was praised as one of Duncanson’s best pictures.
Secondary Place of Origin
Appalachia; United States; North America
Date
1851-1853
Subject(s)
- African American maker
Materials
- Oil paint
- Canvas
Dimensions (inches)
23.625 (H) x 33.375 (W) x 2.5 (D)
Dimensions (centimeters)
60.008 (H) x 84.773 (W) x 6.35 (D)
Measurement Notes
These measurements are the overall framed measurments.
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Article: Boyle, Robert Alexander. 2021 Robert Painter of Freedom Duncan. Antiques and Fine Art. 20 (1): 49 - 59.
• Published: p. 51, fig. 4Article: Candeto, Candice Roland & Gailani, Matthew Joseph. 2023 "Most Paintable Mountains": Rudolph F. Ingerle and the Call of the Smokies. AppalJ. 50 (1 - 2): 38 - 63.
• Published: p. 43, fig. 4