ARTIST: Krystyna R Robbins (Texas, British, Scottish, born 1942)
NAME: Street Cafe Scene
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: Very good. No visible inpaint under UV light.
SIGHT SIZE: 24 x 20 inches / 60 x 50 cm
FRAME SIZE: 34 x 30 inches / 86 x 76 cm
SIGNATURE: lower right
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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BIOGRAPHY:
Krystyna Robbins is known for Plein-air landscape, still life.Born in Dundee, Scotland to Polish parents, Krystyna Robbins immigrated to the United States and began her career in New York City by earning a degree at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She then worked as a designer in the Garment District of New York and eventually created her own line of sportswear.She began fine-art painting in California where she took up plein-air painting in oil of landscapes and also painted still lifes. In the 1980s, she moved to El Paso, Texas, and turned to depictions of historical missions and adobes bathed in Southwestern light and shadows.A painting titled "Cotton Along the River" by Krystyna Robbins was exhibited with nineteen other plein-air landscapes in the fall, 2004 at the Department of Interior Museum in Washington DC.