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<I>The Garden of Eden</I>
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<I>The Garden of Eden</I>

Robert S. Duncanson, American, 1821 - 1872 · 1852

oil on canvas
National Museum of African American History and Culture
CC0 — Public Domain
National Museum of African American History and Culture

... the exotic, semitropical Eden depicted in Duncanson’s painting is emblematic of America as the primitive, wilderness garden, "a perfect earth." J. D. Ketner

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