Robert S. Duncanson:

19th Century Black Romantic Painter

by James Dallas Parks

First edition.  Washington, D.C.:  The Associated Publishers, Inc., 1980 

Hardback is overall in VERY GOOD condition, with a GOOD DJ.

• Russet cloth covers are mostly clean.  Boards show a little edgewear.  Corners are sharp. 
• Spine has gilt text and is bright with bumped ends.
• Binding is secure. 
• End papers/ pastedowns show little to no sign of age or wear.
• Illustrations are bright and clear. 
• Interior is printed on buff paper.  Inside pages are free of writing and intentional marks. 
• DJ looks nice behind Mylar and is backed with archival paper.
• Close examination of DJ reveals edgewear at foot, bumping at head with closed tears, chipping at corners, staining to back.  See photos.  
• PS2024.0725

60 pages. 6 x 9 inches

A very good copy, with dust jacket, of this first edition biographical study of the African American painter Robert S. Duncanson (1821-1872).  Born in New York state, of mixed parentage, Duncanson lived and worked in Canada and Ohio before taking up painting full-time.  Travels to Europe influenced his painting, as did the landscape painters of the Hudson River School.  He painted portraits and also murals, most notably the Taft murals in Cincinnati.  

This work is part of the Sigma Pi Phi Series, which presents research on noteworthy black people of notable achievements.  The author, James Dallas Parks (1907-1983), was both an accomplished artist who exhibited widely and an art historian.  In his work he emphasized the contributions of Black artists, as in his biography of Duncanson. 

First edition.  The Associated Publishers is a Division of the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, Inc.  Printed and produced in Washington, D.C.

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