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Alonzo Chappel

The Landing of Roger Williams in 1636, 1857

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Description

Maker

  • Alonzo Chappel, 1828-1887, American

Title

The Landing of Roger Williams in 1636

Year

1857

Medium

Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • oil paint

Supports

  • canvas

Dimensions

50.8 x 61.3 cm (20 x 24 1/8 inches)

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

43.003

Projects & Publications

Publications

Manual / Issue 6

Assemblage
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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

United Histories

March 23 - August 12, 2018

This pair of works demonstrates how artists have used historical representations to address the issues of their own times. In her 2006 print Cotton Hoards in the Southern Swamp, Kara Walker stencils figures onto images from Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War, published in 1866. Walker’s overlayed black figures reassert the stories of African Americans that have gone untold in the historical record.

In the 1857 painting, Alonzo Chappel inventively portrays the 1636 arrival of Roger Williams in what is now Rhode Island, imagining an enthusiastic welcome by the Narragansett people already living here. This heroicized image was created when U.S. policies were forcing many thousands of Native Americans onto reservations, freeing their homelands for European settlement.

While Walker’s work intentionally engages fiction to tell suppressed historical truths, Chappel’s composition embellishes a historical event to support the dominant power hierarchies in the era in which he lived.

To hear Lorén Spears (Narragansett/Niantic) discuss Chappel’s painting, go to https://risdmuseum.org/manual/422_the_landing_of_roger_williams.

[see also: 2006.48]

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After Eden

April 26 - December 29, 1996

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July 22 - October 2, 1994

Romanticism and Revival

December 4, 1992 - June 26, 1993

Raid the Icebox 1 with Andy Warhol

April 23 - June 30, 1970

18th and 19th-Century American Galleries

Charles Pendleton House

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Landing of Roger Williams, 1857

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