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Charles Dorman Robinson1908 Original Oil Painting Mendocino Coast, California Seascape 1908
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1908 Original Oil Painting Mendocino Coast, California Seascape
A rare 1908 California plein air painting of Mendocino Coast's Navarro River estuary by early well-listed California plein air artist Charles Dorman Robinson (American, 1847-1933), 1908. Waves beat against rocks with redwoods on cliffs in background of iconic rugged Northern California coast seascape.
Signed and dated lower left corner. "C. Dorman Robinson 1908"
Title: "Navarro River" estuary on stretcher bar (image photo enhanced)
Condition: Good; Professionally restored, craquelure throughout consistent with age/wear. Corner and edge wear consistent with age. Restoration includes relining, craquelure reinforced, missing paint on edges inpainted. New UV-resistant, non-yellowing varnish applied
Medium: Oil Paint on Linen
Unframed
Charles Robinson was born in East Monmouth, Maine, and his father, David Robinson, was a theatre producer for Gold Rush mining towns and constructed the first theatres and plays for stage productions in San Francisco. In 1850, his family moved to San Francisco where he was educated in the public schools and grew up sketching harbor scenes. He took lessons at the age of seven from Charles Nahl, a painter of mining genre and landscape, and earned a diploma at age 13 from the Mechanics' Institute for best marine drawing for a juvenile.
From 1861 to 1873, he lived in Vermont because the family was forced out of San Francisco by threats resulting from his father being on the Vigilance Committee. On the East Coast, he became the pupil of marine artists William Bradford and M.F.H. De Haas as well as Impressionist George Inness. He was also much influenced by Albert Bierstadt and James Hamilton.
He lived in Clinton, Iowa from 1873 to 1874 to court and marry Kathryn Wright, and then returned to San Francisco. He first worked as a retoucher of photos, and he and his wife wrote and did illustrations for Overland Monthly and Century magazine.
By 1876, Robinson was exhibiting regularly as a painter, and in 1880 began making trips to Yosemite Valley. He was also in Paris between 1899 and 1901 and offered the Paris Exposition in 1900 a painting of Yosemite that was 50 x 380 feet and weighed five tons. When the committee rejected the panorama, he cut it into pieces, which he sold for passage money home.
In the earthquake and fire of 1906, many of his paintings were destroyed in a warehouse where he had thought they would be safe. In 1921, a fire in his home destroyed twenty years worth of Yosemite paintings. He died May 8, 1933 in San Rafael, California.
- Creator:Charles Dorman Robinson (1847 - 1933, American)
- Creation Year:1908
- Dimensions:Height: 18 in (45.72 cm)Width: 28.25 in (71.76 cm)Depth: 0.75 in (1.91 cm)
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- Condition:Professionally restored, craquelure throughout consistent with age/wear. Corner and edge wear consistent with age. Restoration includes relining, craquelure reinforced, missing paint on edges inpainted. New UV-resistant, non-yellowing varnish applied.
- Gallery Location:Soquel, CA
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