Ellen's Isle, Loch Katrine

1871

Robert S. Duncanson American, 1821 - 1872

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African American, Level 2, West Wing

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Title Ellen's Isle, Loch Katrine

Artwork Date 1871

Artist Robert S. Duncanson

Life Dates 1821 - 1872

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 28 1/2 × 49 inches (72.4 × 124.5 cm) Framed: 42 3/8 × 63 × 6 inches (107.6 × 160 × 15.2 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department African American Art

Credit Gift of the Estate of Ralzemond D. Parker

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. F80.215

Markings

Signed Signed, lower right: R. S. Duncanson Cinti. O. 1871

Inscriptions Signed, dated and inscribed, lower right: R. S. Duncanson Cinti. O. 1871

Provenance

1871-1874, Charles Sumner (Virginia, USA). 1874-1884, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, Massachusetts, USA). 1884-1888, Mrs. Phoebe Duncanson. from 1888, Ralzemond Parker (Detroit, Michigan, USA). to 1983, Ralzemond D. Parker (Washington, D.C., USA)

1983-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Monroe Commercial, September 14, 1871, 3.

Detroit Free Press, September 15 and 16, 1871, 1.

Detroit Daily Union, September 16, 1871, 4.

Detroit Daily Post, September 16, 1871, 4.

Daily Cincinnati Commercial, December 27, 1872, 8.

Pacific Appeal (San Francisco), November 14, 1874, 1.

The Aldine (Virginia), February 1875, 277.

Porter, J. 1936, p. 21.

Porter, J. 1951, pp. 140, 151.

Detroit Public Library, Burton Historical Collection. Elleine Stones to James Porter, February 11, 1953.

Parks. 1989, pp. 24, 42.

Ketner. 1983, pp. 45-46.

Washington. 1985, p. 63.

Pringle. 1985, p. 48.

Muskegon and Detroit, 1987, pp. 66-67.

Ketner. 1993, pp. 169, 174-176, pl. 20, 204, no. 143.

Buick, Kirsten Pai. Bulletin of the DIA 86, no. 1/4 (2012): 15.

Arabindan-Kesson, Anna. "From Poetry into Paint: Robert S Duncanson and the Song of Hiawatha." In Terra Foundation Essays. Vol. 6, Intermedia, Frohne, Ursula, ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022, pp. 106-107, no. 10 (ill.).

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