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Land of the Lotus Eaters by Robert S. Duncanson
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Artist: Robert S. Duncanson
Odysseus’ men take the lotus from the natives of a paradise valley and forget their homes: Duncanson’s answer to Tennyson, painted on the eve of the Civil War.
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The Lotus-eaters gave Odysseus’ scouts a fruit so sweet that they forgot their homes and had to be dragged back to the ships in tears. Robert S. Duncanson, the first African American painter to win an international reputation, took the episode from Tennyson’s poem rather than straight from Homer and painted it as a vast tropical valley, with the Greek soldiers in the foreground being offered the lotus by the people of the land. It is a picture about the temptation to stop.
He painted it in 1861, as the United States went to war, and it was shown in London and Canada and bought, eventually, by the King of Sweden. Duncanson’s landscapes belong with the Hudson River School; this is his most ambitious. Our hand-painted reproduction is made in oil on canvas from the original.
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