This final episode of our virtual museum road trip takes us to the Cleveland Museum of Art to see the dreamy Vale of Kashmir by Robert S. Duncanson.

We’ll find out how a self-taught American artist made it big and his connection to First Lady Dr. Jill Biden.

SHOW NOTES

“A Long Look” theme is “Ascension” by Ron Gelinas https://youtu.be/jGEdNSNkZoo

Episode theme is “Nocturne in B flat minor, Op. 9 no. 1” composed by Frédéric Chopin. Performed by Olga Gurevich.  

Courtesy of musopen.org
https://musopen.org/music/108-nocturnes-op-9/

Vale of Kashmir image 
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2014.12

Duncanson info

The Emergence of the African-American Artist: Robert S. Duncanson 1821-1872, Joseph D. Ketner, University of Missouri Press, 1994.

America’s Forgotten Landscape Painter: Robert S. Duncanson
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/americas-forgotten-landscape-painter-robert-s-duncanson-112952174/

Inauguration Highlights Rainbow Painting by African American Artist
https://americanart.si.edu/blog/inauguration-highlights-rainbow-painting-african-american-artist-duncanson

Robert S. Duncanson Charted New Paths for Black Artists in 19th-Century America
https://www.artnews.com/feature/robert-s-duncanson-landscape-painter-who-was-he-1234582541/

The Cleveland Museum of Art Acquisition Highlights 2014
https://www.clevelandart.org/magazine/cleveland-art-2015-highlights/acquisition-highlights-2014

Lalla Rookh info
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalla_Rookh

Taft murals
https://www.taftmuseum.org/duncanson-murals

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