Fruit Piece

1849

Robert S. Duncanson American, 1821 - 1872

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African American, Level 2, West Wing

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Title Fruit Piece

Artwork Date 1849

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: 14 × 20 inches (35.6 × 50.8 cm) Framed: 21 1/8 × 27 × 3 1/8 inches (53.7 × 68.6 × 7.9 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department African American Art

Credit Gift of the Estates of Miss Elizabeth Gray Walker and Mr. Henry Lyster Walker

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. 57.84

Markings

Signed Signed, lower right: R. S. Duncanson

Inscriptions Dated, lower right under signature: 1849

Provenance

ca. 1849, Henry N. Walker (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

until 1957, Walker family (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1957-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Porter, J. A. "Robert S. Duncanson, Midwestern Romantic Realist." Art in America 39, no. 3 (Oct. 1951): 117, 119, fig. 11.

Ten Afro-American Artists of the Nineteenth Century. Exh. cat., Howard University. Washington, D. C. , 1967, p. 14.

Gibson, A. H. Artists of Early Michigan. Detroit, 1975, p. 94 (ill.).

Painters of the Humble Truth, Masterpieces of American Still Life 1801-1939. Exh. cat., Philbrook Art Center. Tulsa, 1982, fig 5.23 (ill.).

“Family Art Game,” DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit News, April 10, 1983, 2 (ill.).

Mitchell, Mark D. The Art of American Still Life: Audubon to Warhol. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, 2015, p. 162 (pl. 43).

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Robert S. Duncanson, Fruit Piece, 1849, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Estates of Miss Elizabeth Gray Walker and Mr. Henry Lyster Walker, 57.84.