An apt pictorial start to a presidency that will largely try to shove unity down our throats. Credit: Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Museum of Art There are thousands of ways to look at things.

The Inaugural Painting, picked out by first lady Jill Biden, was painted by a Cincinnati-based artist. “Landscape with Rainbow” by Robert S. Duncanson was loaned by the Smithsonian American Art Museum ...

First Lady Jill Biden has chosen a work by a Black Civil War-era Cincinnati artist as the inaugural painting. The painting, which typically hangs at the inaugural luncheon on Jan. 20, was introduced ...

Moments after laying out his vision for the country with his own broad, bold brushstrokes, newly inaugurated President Joe Biden set his sights on another hopeful vision of America. At the inaugural ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Robert Seldon Duncanson was America’s best known African American painter in the years surrounding the Civil War.

Curator Eleanor Harvey shares the story of Robert Duncanson and his artwork Eleanor Jones Harvey Robert S. Duncanson, Landscape with Rainbow, 1859, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift ...

One of America’s most important and influential landscape artists was a free Black man in the 1800s who spent decades creating in Detroit and even died here. Yet many still don’t know his name. Robert ...