page_title: Albert H. Robinson
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Albert H. Robinson / Career
caption_attribution_description: On Baie-Saint-Paul the distant viewing point enables the painter to create a composition similar to a landscape of La Malbaie by Robinson. The foreground occupies over half of the height of the canvas and consists of a mass of snow through which a crescent-shaped stream of water flows. This stream directs the gaze of the viewer to the center of the painting where horse-drawn sleds are shown sliding over the road that stretches the entire width of the canvas. The silhouette of the center of Baie-Saint-Paul forms an architectural frieze unified by the color tones used to render the shades of brick walls. Unlike the view of La Malbaie, the orientation, the nature and the size of the buildings are much more heterogeneous.
context_page_description: Albert Henry Robinson RCA was a Canadian landscape painter, an invited contributor to the first Group of Seven exhibition in 1920, as well as a founding member of the Beaver Hall Group in 1920 and the Canadian Group of Painters in 1933. He used the rolling rhythm of landscape parallel to the picture plane used by A.Y. Jackson, with whom he often painted on trips to Quebec, but endowed his work with unusual colours – corals, pinks, dark blue. He sought simplified, powerful form.
context_section_description: His career included serving in the war industry as inspector of munitions during World War I (1917–1919). He was commissioned by the Canadian War Memorials to paint the Vickers Shipbuilding plant in Montreal.
  From about 1918 to 1933, Robinson painted on trips along the St. Lawrence River and in the Laurentians with Jackson, Clarence Gagnon, Edwin Holgate and Randolph Hewton. He retired due to a heart attack which when he recovered, was followed by arthritis.
  His dealer was William R. Watson of Watson Art Galleries, then Walter Klinkhoff Gallery, Montreal and today, Alan Klinkhoff Gallery in Montreal and Toronto and Eric Klinkhoff Gallery in Montreal. In 1982, Jennifer Watson for the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery curated a retrospective exhibition which travelled to seven other galleries, Albert H. Robinson: The Mature Years; in 1994, Walter Klinkhoff Gallery organized a retrospective with a catalogue. 
  His work is in the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; the Art Gallery of Hamilton; McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, among others.
caption: Baie-Saint-Paul by Albert Henry Robinson
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