MS01.01.03.B02.F10.035

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Duncanson put craftsmanship and competent development as an artist of mature style above race. He was seven years old when Edward Mitchell Bannister was born in Nova Scotia. The romantic realist tradition in which most of Duncanson's work had been done was not to be the trademark of Bannister who was to prove himself to be one of the most prolific landscape artist working in the later twentieth century.

Edward Mitchell Bannister was born in Saint Andrews Nova Scotia in 1828. While yet a young man with a yearning to sail the rugged sea to Boston then to New York, where his first occupation was that of making solar prints.

His print sales this "affored him the leisure" to pain scenes in various parts of the style of Rhode Island, during which time he proposed a great likeness for sailing and yachting in narragamsett Bay. Upon returing to Providence, whcih then became his permanent hom, obtained a studio and began making a living as a professional painter.

By the year 1854, his painting revealed a style mature enough for him to be offered a commission by a local patron of the arts. His first commissoned work was call "The Ship Outward Bound". Sensing a need to be further trained in the finest manner, because of the stiff competition at hand, Bannister attended Lowell Institute in 1855 during which time he studied with the noted American sculptor, William Rimmer. Thereafter, he was a regular participant in the exhibitions that were held at the Boston Art Club and upon moving to Providence, he became one of the founders of the Providence Art Club. The Providence Art Club met frequently in Bannister's studio in the early 1870's.

One of Bannister's paintings, UNDER THE OAKS, was exhibited with the group of paintings representing Massachusetts artists in the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876. The painting was awarded the Bronze Medal which who among the highest honors bestowed on an artist at the exhibition, when he arrived and requested entry to the gallery where his painting was on view, he was not allowed to enter. The only reason

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