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Man in a Workshop

Man in a Workshop

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Theodore Robinson

Theodore Robinson, who spent his boyhood in Evansville, Wisconsin, studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1876. The next summer he began sketching and painting out-of-doors, discovering the effects of natural light and shadow on the landscape, its objects and color. He used quick, broken brush strokes of paint to develop his compositions. Yet he remained faithful to American painting techniques by continuing to define forms and objects clearly and by portraying color in the traditional manner. Robinson spent the years of 1884 to 1888 with Monet at Giverny; afterwards he returned to America, painting the Delaware and Hudson River Canal scenery. Man in a Workshop was painted when he was in America from 1879 to 1884. Its dark tonalities and unsentimentalized subject place it in the mainstream of contemporary French realism.
Artist
Theodore Robinson
(American, 1852 - 1896)
Title
Man in a Workshop
Date
1882
Medium
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
13 3/4 x 10 5/16 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Bullard
Accession No.
1986.35
Classification
Paintings
Geography
United States

Related

From 1882, passed through inheritance from the artist, Theodore Robinson (New York), to [his great, great, nephew] Dr. Robert J. Bullard (Boscobel, WI); September 1986, gifted by Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Bullard (Boscobel, WI) to the Elvehjem Museum of Art [now called Chazen Museum of Art]

  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Handbook of the Collection." Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, 1990. no. 92
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Artscene." Vol. 3, No. 4, July/August 1987. p. 5
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Elvehjem Museum of Art Bulletin/Annual Report 1986-1987." Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1988. p. 68

  • Recent Acquisitions [1987]: Elvehjem Museum of Art, 6/20/1987–8/16/1987

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