Robert Seldon Duncanson adalah lanskap Amerika abad ke-19 keturunan Eropa dan Afrika. Terinspirasi oleh seniman lanskap Amerika terkenal seperti Thomas Cole, Duncanson menciptakan lukisan pemandangan terkenal dan dianggap sebagai seniman generasi kedua Sekolah Sungai Hudson. Sebagai orang kulit hitam bebas di antebellum Amerika, Duncanson melibatkan komunitas abolitionist di Amerika dan Inggris untuk mendukung dan mempromosikan karyanya. Duncanson is considered the first African-American artist to be internationally known. Dia beroperasi di lingkaran budaya Cincinnati, Detroit, Montreal, dan London. Perdebatan sejarah seni rupa utama yang berpusat pada Duncanson menyangkut peran yang dimainkan oleh isu-isu rasial kontemporer dalam karyanya. Beberapa sejarawan seni, seperti Joseph D. Ketner, percaya bahwa Duncanson menggunakan metafora rasial dalam karya seninya, sementara yang lain, seperti Margaret Rose Vendryes, mencegah pemirsa mendekati karya seninya dengan perspektif rasial. Galeri Pameran 1842: Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Statuary, Western Art Union, Cincinnati, Ohio 1843: Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Statuary, Western Art Union, Cincinnati, Ohio 1864: Art Association of Montreal, Montreal, Canada 1865: Dublin Exhibition, Art Association of Montreal, Ireland 1871: Western Art Gallery, [Detroit, Michigan 1943: Balmoral Castle, Scotland, Museum of Modern Art, New York City 1953: Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado 1955: Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio 1961: Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis, Indiana 1967: Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 1970: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California 1971: Bowdoin College, Museum of Contemporary Art, Brunswick, Maine 1972: Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio 1972: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 1976: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles 1979: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan 1983: National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. 1992: National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. 1996: Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri 1999: To Conserve a Legacy - American Art from History, Black Colleges and Universities, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City 2003: Then and Now: Selection of 19-20th Century Art by African American Artists, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan 2009: Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio Catatan American Paradise: The World of the Hudson River School, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art , which contains material on Duncanson Ohio Collection, Dayton Museum of Art artcyclopedia Long Island University Pelukis Amerika Serikat