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View of Lake Pepin, Minnesota

1862

Robert S. Duncanson

(American, 1821–1872)
Culture
America
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
Framed: 38.5 x 63 x 6.5 cm (15 3/16 x 24 13/16 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 30.2 x 54.5 cm (11 7/8 x 21 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of William Macbeth 1947.198
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Did You Know?

The sport of waterskiing was invented on Lake Pepin in 1922.

Description

Duncanson was the first African American painter to achieve recognition at home and abroad. Although most of his career was spent in Cincinnati, he painted this calm, panoramic scene during a journey up the Mississippi River to Canada, which he likely made to escape the upheaval of the Civil War. Duncanson worked in Montreal and London, England, before returning home after the war.
A horizontally oriented oil painting depicts a realistic landscape of Lake Pepin, Minnesota. The horizon line cuts the composition relatively evenly in two. Below it, light brown hills surround the lake, smooth, gray-white water winding through the composition's left half. In the lower fourth, a light brown and green streaks the barren ground. Above, hazy, light gray clouds roll up from the landscape into a blue sky.

View of Lake Pepin, Minnesota

1862

Robert S. Duncanson

(American, 1821–1872)
America

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