Albert H. Robinson

• Name — Albert H. Robinson • Birth Name — Albert Henry Robinson • Born — 2 January 1881 • Birthplace — Hamilton, Ontario • Died — 7 September 1956 • Place of death — Montreal, Quebec • Spouse — Marion Ethelwynne Russell, married 1952 • Training — Hamilton Art School with John S. Gordon; Académie Julian with William-Adolphe Bouguereau and École des Beaux Arts with Gabriel Ferrier, Paris (1903) and also with the American Thomas William Marshall (painter) in Normandy and Corsica (1903–1905) • Movement — Impressionism • Awards — Member in 1920, Royal Canadian Academy • Known for — landscape painter; teacher, Hamilton Art School, starting in 1905 • Elected — founding member, Beaver Hall Group, Montreal in 1920, and of the Canadian Group of Painters, 1933; Pen and Pencil Club, Montreal, 1911

• Illustration — Baie-Saint-Paul by Albert Henry Robinson Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Albert Henry Robinson's first studies were with John S. Gordon at the Hamilton Art School. In 1903–1904, he was in Paris, studying first at the Académie Julian with Bouguereau and Bashet then at the École des Beaux-Arts with Gabriel Ferrier, and also with artist, Thomas William Marshall. About 1908, he began to paint the Quebec landscape and moved to Montreal. In 1910, he met A.Y. Jackson and went with him the next year to France, visiting St. Malo and Carhaix in Brittany. In 1911, he was elected an associate of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts and that year was in Europe again. In 1920, he became an academician. 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. In 1921, he painted with Jackson at Cacouna where he made studies for Returning from Easter Mass. Despite travelling to the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River with Jackson in 1921, Robinson preferred to paint the north shore where, throughout the 1920s and into the early 1930s, he made annual trips in Beaupré and Charlevoix counties. His work was gaining recognition abroad when he had to retire due to a heart attack. When he recovered from the heart attack, it was followed by arthritis. By 1936 he had ceased to paint. 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.

At the Cowley Abbott Auction of An Important Private Collection of Canadian Art – Part III, December 6, 2023, lot #116, Robinson's La Malbaie, oil on canvas, 22 x 26.25 ins (55.9 x 66.7 cms), Auction Estimate: $70,000.00 - $90,000.00, realized a price of $168,000.00.