Landscape with Shepherd

Robert S. Duncanson

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Duncanson was born free in upstate New York to a family of carpenters and housepainters. An ambitious self-taught artist, he established a successful career in the Midwest, especially in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he produced landscapes that suggest the strong influence of Thomas Cole. While Duncanson painted many actual sites, "Landscape with Shepherd" typifies the idyllic pastoral view he favored.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art