A Church in Westmount by Albert H. Robinson

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Giclee prints on canvas or paper of A Church in Westmount by Albert H. Robinson

ALBERT HENRY ROBINSON Born in Hamilton, Ontario, 1881, Albert Robinson worked as an illustrator for the Hamilton Times, 1901-1903, while studying under John S. Gordon. He earned enough money from illustrating to go to Paris in 1903, where he studied at the Académie Julian under William Bouguereau and at the École des beaux-arts. For two summers, 1904-1905, he travelled and painted in Normandy. Back in Hamilton in 1905, he began teaching at the Hamilton Art School. He also began painting Canadian landscapes in oil in 1907. Then, he moved to Montreal in 1908, where he met William Brymner and Maurice Cullen. He painted Montreal harbour scenes and Quebec landscapes. He met A.Y. Jackson in 1910 and the two artists went to France to paint in 1911, where Robinson sketched in Brittany, and later in England.

He stopped his painting to work in munitions factory at Longue-Pointe, Quebec, between 1914 and 1918. Then he worked briefly for Canadian War Memorials, painting wartime shipbuilding. After 1918, he began painting rural Quebec on sketching trips with A.Y. Jackson to St-Tite-des-Caps, Baie-St-Paul, Cacouna, Quebec City, and the Laurentians. He also painted with Clarence Gagnon and Edwin Holgate. Robinson stopped painting more than a decade before his death in 1956 in Montreal.