Albert Henry Robinson (1881 - 1956)
Albert Henry Robinson was active/lived in Quebec, Ontario / Canada. Albert Robinson is known for bucolic landscape and figure painting.

Signed Lower Right
Oil on Canvas
Painting Size: 16" x 12".
Frame Size: 20" x 16".
Circa 1940s

CONDITION
Good condition

Biography

Robinson was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (Associate 1911, Academician 1920), and was a founding member of the Canadian Group of Painters (1933). He was also a member of the Pen and Pencil Club of Montreal (1911).

His work was exhibited with the RCA from 1909 to 1954 and with the Art Association of Montreal (3) 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 (4). His work was also shown at the British Empire Exposition, Wembley, England (1925); the Sesquicentennial International Exposition, Philadelphia (1926); the Musée 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).

The venues for his solo and retrospective exhibitions include the Hamilton Art School (1906); the Montreal Arts Club (1920); Watson Galleries, Montreal (1926); the West End Art Gallery, Montreal (1950); the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (1955); and the Hamilton Art Gallery (1955). (5)

Posthumously, Galerie Walter Klinkhoff, Montreal has had retrospectives of his work in 1961 and 1994; and the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario has had retrospectives in 1968 and 1982. Robinson's paintings were included in the 1995-1996 National Gallery of Canada touring exhibition titled "The Group of Seven - Art For A Nation". The other venues on the tour were the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Vancouver Art Gallery (B.C.).

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.



PROVENANCE
Private Collection from New York

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