Valley of the Seine from Giverny Heights
Theodore Robinson (American, 1852 -1896)
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This interests me, the liking for landscape (both in nature and
art) in America. It is very genuine and widespread, and is a good way to
begin—something
good will come from it if it is directed and taught, as the canvases of Monet
and others are doing, or at least beginning to do.
Theodore Robinson, 1893
Vermont-born Theodore Robinson is best known for his impressionist landscape
paintings of New York, New Jersey, and New England. Like many young American
impressionists, Robinson developed the artistic foundation for his interpretation
of native landscape in the French countryside. In 1876, after a period of study
in Chicago and New York, Robinson trained in the Paris atelier of portraitist
Carolus-Duran and, later, under the celebrated academic painter Jean Léon
Gérôme. A break from this academic instruction occurred in 1888,
when Robinson met Claude Monet in the French village of Giverny. Although he
was never a formal student of the French impressionist, Robinson was deeply
influenced by his mentor’s technique. Valley of the Seine from Giverny Heights reflects Monet’s influence on Robinson’s developing style. . . .
- Dorothy Moss, formerly Assistant Curator of American Art
Corcoran Gallery of Art
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