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Charles Dormon Robinson

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Artist's Biography

Charles Dormon Robinson received his first lessons in art from Charles C. Nahl as a child in San Francisco.  During his teen-age years, he studied with William Bradford and George Inness on the East Coast before returning to San Francisco in 1874.  Robinson started exhibiting marine paintings of San Francisco Bay that won him wide acclaim.  A visit to Yosemite in 1880 delighted the artist so much that he retained a summer studio in the Valley for many years, filling orders for visitors from all over the world.  For most of his career, he painted in the slightly idealized, topographical style of the Hudson River School, but he started experimenting with the high-keyed palette and suggestive brushstrokes of the Impressionist movement after a trip to Paris in 1900.