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. Duncansonhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/americas-forgotten-landscape-painter-robert-s-duncanson-112952174/

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

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

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

Lalla Rookh infohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalla_Rookh

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

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