Albert Henry Robinson (1881 - 1956) Canada
Watercolor on Paper
Measure 12"in H x 8 1/2"in W and 18 1/4"in H x 14 1/4"in W with frame

Known for: Bucolic landscape and figure painting
Biography: Albert Henry Robinson was a painter and illustrator. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario and died in Montreal, Quebec, where he had lived since 1908. His primary mediums were oil on wood panel and oil on canvas. He also did watercolours and pencil drawings. His subjects were landscapes, figures in landscape, snowscape, urban scenes, harbour scenes, figures, nudes and genre. The locations were in and around Montreal, Cacouna, La Malbaie, Baie Saint Paul, other Quebec towns, the countryside in the Laurentians and along the St. Lawrence River in Quebec. There are also paintings from his travels to Europe. His styles were Fauvism and Plein Air. "What Robinson introduced was an unusual colour element - pinks, corals, dark blue. His skies are coloured boldly and unrealistically like a stage-set backdrop. And he orchestrated the effect of space. He was concerned throughout his painting career, short as it was, with the creation of more simplified, powerful form - he wanted to eliminate the trivial." - Joan Murray His travels include a four month trip to Europe in 1911 with A.Y.Jackson whom he'd met after moving to Montreal. Jackson became a frequent companion on painting trips in Quebec as did Clarence Gagnon, Edwin Holgate and Randolph Stanley Hewton . Most of the excursions were along the St. Lawrence River, painting the picturesque towns and countryside along both sides of the river going east towards Gaspe. His work was exhibited with the RCA from 1909 to 1954 and with the Art Association of Montreal from 1908 to 1937. In 1920, he was one of three guest exhibitors in the first Group of Seven exhibition (see Glossary) at the Art Gallery of Toronto, Ontario. His work was also shown at the British Empire Exposition, Wembley, England (1925); the Sesquicentennial International Exposition, Philadelphia (1926); the Musee du Jeu de Paume, Paris (1927); the Tate Gallery, London, England ("A Century of Canadian Art", 1938); the New York World's Fair (1939); and Yale University Art Gallery ("Canadian Art 1760 -1943", 1944). His works are in many private and corporate collections. They are also in numerous public collections including Museum London (Ontario), the Art Gallery of Hamilton, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the McMichael Canadian Collection (Kleinberg, Ontario), the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Joliette Museum of Art (Quebec), the Canadian War Museum (Ottawa) and the Museum of Quebec (Quebec City). The National Gallery of Canada has 23 Albert Henry Robinson paintings in its collection. His awards include the Jessie Dow Prize, from the Art Association of Montreal in 1928. His work and its importance are discussed in most Canadian art history books.

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