Landscape+with+Rainbow

Date: 1859
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 * Title: **Landscape with Rainbow**

Artist: **Robert S. Duncanson** Born: New York 1821 Died: Detroit, Michigan 1872

Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 30 x 52 1/4 in. (76.3 x 132.7 cm.) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Leonard and Paula Granoff

Accession: 1983.95.160 || As America moved steadily toward Civil War, its most-renowned African-American painter created this vision of a calm, orderly world. Tiny figures, seemingly unaffected by the panoramic scale of their surroundings, walk in an Eden-like setting graced by a rainbow. The wandering cattle and nearby cottage reinforce the sense that man lives in harmony with nature. Duncanson, son of free blacks, seems to envision a future free of prejudice and strife.
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 * What is your first impression of this painting?
 * How would you describe this location?
 * What might the rainbow mean as a symbol?
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