# View of Lake Pepin, Minnesota

- By: Robert S. Duncanson (American, 1821–1872)
- Date: 1862
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Framed: 38.5 x 63 x 6.5 cm (15 3/16 x 24 13/16 x 2 9/16 in.); Unframed: 30.2 x 54.5 cm (11 7/8 x 21 7/16 in.)
- Culture: United States
- Credit line: Gift of William Macbeth
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.198)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/1947.198/1947.198_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Duncanson was the first African American painter to achieve recognition at home and abroad. Although most of his career was spent in Cincinnati, he painted this calm, panoramic scene during a journey up the Mississippi River to Canada, which he likely made to escape the upheaval of the Civil War. Duncanson worked in Montreal and London, England, before returning home after the war.