Artwork by Albert Henry Robinson,  Untitled (Boats in the Harbour)
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Albert H. Robinson
Untitled (Boats in the Harbour)

oil on board
signed lower right
15.5 x 19.5 ins ( 39.4 x 49.5 cms )

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Private Collection, Vancouver
In 1910 the young Quebec artist Albert Henry Robinson met A.Y. Jackson, who would greatly influence his painting style. Between 1918 and 1933 the two men would take many painting trips along the St. Lawrence and in the Laurentians. Emerging towns in these areas constitute the majority of Robinson’s work, likely including this charming harbour scene. While working closely with A.Y. Jackson, the use of looser brushstrokes, emphasis on light and shadow depicted with colour and simplified forms became part of Robinson’s artistic style. In this painting, the artist has used a rich palette of various greens in the sailboats and their reflections in the water. Large, loose strokes of pastel tones fill the shoreline horizon in the background.
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Albert Henry Robinson
(1881 - 1956) Canadian Group of Painters, RCA

Albert Henry Robinson (RCA) was born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1881. Robinson studied in Hamilton with John S. Gordon and left for Paris in 1903. He continued his training at the Julian Academy with Bouguereau and Bachet, and then with Ferrier at the L’Ecole des Beaux-Arts. During his time there he travelled to Normandy and Corsica. After returning to Hamilton, John S. Gordon hired him as an assistant and Robinson exhibited his work for the first time in 1906. In 1910 he met and befriended A.Y. Jackson. Between 1918 and 1933 Robinson travelled along the shores of the St. Lawrence and in the Laurentians painting many landscapes, which constitute the bulk of his work.