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Fine Art Robinson: At first considered a radical in his use of color and Lighting effects, Robinson became a leader of the impressionist school in America. He was awarded the Webb prize in 1890 for his Winter Landscape and the Shaw prize in 1892 for his study of a peasant girl, In the Sun. Among his other canvases are The Canal, at the Pennsylvania Academy of the fine art Robinson Arts in Philadelphia, and Girl and Cow, The Old Mill, and Bird's-Eye View, Giverney, France, all three in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
ROBINSON, Thomas Romney, Irish astronomer: b. Dublin, Ireland, April 23, 1792; d. Armagh, Ireland, Feb. 28, 1882.Formative Years. Robinson's family moved to Gardiner, Me., a few miles from Head Tide, shortly after he was born. Gardiner, the Tilbury Town of Robinson's poems, had a determining effect on his work. He graduated from the local high school, and after a period of frustration and indecision, occasioned largely by the failure of his father's fortunes and the illness of his older brother, Horace Dean, Robinson went to Harvard.
William Robinson, who at the turn of the century was instrumental in changing the look of the English border and pioneered the concept of controlled nature in the wild garden, advised using the sumac for its fine art Robinson autumn color and suggested that it even be grown as a plant rather than a tree by cutting it back every spring and confining the growth to one or two shoots. |
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