Albert H. Robinson | |
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.jpg) Robinson in 1929 | |
| Born | Albert Henry Robinson January 2, 1881 |
| Died | September 7, 1956 (aged 75) Montreal, Quebec |
| Education | Hamilton Art School with John S. Gordon; Académie Julian with William-Adolphe Bouguereau and École des Beaux Arts with Gabriel Ferrier, Paris (1903) and also with the American Thomas William Marshall (painter) in Normandy and Corsica (1903–1905) |
| Movement | Impressionism |
| Spouse(s) | Marion Ethelwynne Russell, married 1952 |
| Awards | Member in 1920, Royal Canadian Academy |
| Elected | founding member, Beaver Hall Group, Montreal in 1920, and of the Canadian Group of Painters, 1933; Pen and Pencil Club, Montreal, 1911 |
Albert Henry Robinson RCA, also known as Albert H. Robinson and as A. H. Robinson (January 2, 1881 – September 7, 1956) was a Canadian landscape painter, an invited contributor to the first Group of Seven exhibition in 1920,[1] as well as a founding member of the Beaver Hall Group in 1920 and the Canadian Group of Painters in 1933. He used the rolling rhythm of landscape parallel to the picture plane used by A.Y. Jackson, with whom he often painted on trips to Quebec, but endowed his work with unusual colours – corals, pinks, dark blue.[2] He sought simplified, powerful form[2]
- ^ Watson 1982, p. 19.
- ^ a b MacDonald 1990, p. 2203-2207.