Patricia Duncan

Patricia DuBose Duncan (born 1932) is an artist living in Topsham, Maine. She is best known for her work to gain support for designating some of the last remaining tall grass prairie land in the American Midwest, as the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve. This land was publicized in a Smithsonian Traveling Exhibition (S.I.T.E.S.) in 1976-86 as a Bicentennial Exhibition. The exhibit has been digitally preserved by Kansas State University's Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art.

Duncan has paintings and photographs hanging in museums across the country, including the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, the Spencer Museum of Art in Lawrence, Kansas, the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art in Manhattan, KS, and the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art in St. Joseph, MO. Missouri.

Duncan was born in 1932 in Nashville, Tn. Duncan lived with her family in El Dorado, Arkansas and then Roanoke, Virginia until 1944 when the family relocated to Philadelphia. In Philadelphia, Duncan attended the Philadelphia Museum School on a scholarship. Her family moved again, and she went to high school in St. Louis, Missouri. From 1950-1954, she attended Washington University School of Fine Arts where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree focused on painting and printmaking.

Duncan married another graduate of the Washington University, Herb Duncan. He joined the Navy soon after the Korean War draft was enacted, and during his service, he was stationed in Newport, Rhode Island and Long Beach California. While in Long Beach, Duncan was invited "into a group show at the Long Beach Art Museum". Herb was stationed in Sasebo Japan in 1956. While there, Duncan studied woodblock printing and other artforms, with a focus on exploring Japanese aesthetics. This work led to her first one-person show, and exhibit in Sasebo, Japan in 1956. Returning to the states in 1957, Duncan studied at the Kansas City Art Institute of Art.

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