A53.57

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The Wet Sand
c.1890
21.25 in HIGH x 30 in WIDE
(53.97 cm HIGH x 76.20 cm WIDE)
Gift of Dr. William S. Porter
A53.57

Frm
BR: C.D. Robinson
Pomona College Art Gallery. 1962. U.C. Davis. 1964. CHS. Robinson Exhib. 1965. Fresno Arts Ctr. Survey of American Painting. 1977-78. Tampa Art Museum. 1990.





APPROXIMATE DATE: 1890 NOTES: 1847-19??. Born Monmouth, Me., the artist settled in S.F. in 1875. He executed a series of black & white illustrations for J. Muir's book on the King's River Canyon, and in the last decade of the century devoted himself to painting a huge cyclorama of Yosemite Valley from Inspiration Pt. The dimen. of the canvas were some 50 x 400'. This painting shows how in his later life Robinson's works verged on commercialism. ARTIST BIRTH: 1847 ARTIST DEATH: 1933
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