Patricia DuBose Duncan

Duncan was born in Nashville, Tennessee on August 16, 1932. 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. ==Career==

Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve Much of Duncan's work during the 1970s focused on the interests of the environmental movement. The Smithsonian Institution, with additional support from the Hallmark Corporation, commissioned Duncan to create a large traveling exhibit as part of their Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service: "The Tallgrass Prairie: An American Landscape." Notably, she recruited noted photographer and Kansas native, Gordon Parks, to help her with the campaign. She also published a book of writings and photographs: Tallgrass Prairie: The Inland Sea. Maine Following a residency at the Maine Photographic Workshops, she moved to Maine in 1986 and established a studio in Belfast Maine. There she continued to work on photography and painting. ==Art collections==

The personal papers of Patricia DuBose Duncan are housed in the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas. Kansas State University's Marianna Kistler Beach Museum also contains 98 works by Duncan. The Beach Museum of Art published a collection of her art, Taking Root: the Art of Patricia Dubose Duncan. ==References==