Antique Illustration | Woman Figural by Boardman Robinson (signed)

A 1930s illustration of artist Boardman Robinson's wife, captured after a swim at King's Beach in Chilmark, MA.

Framed on Martha's Vineyard, and kept as part of a collection there. Now available for purchase.

Framed: 19 h x 17 w
Sight: 12.5 h x 9 wide

Boardman Robinson (1876–1952) was a Canadian-American painter, illustrator, and political cartoonist. Born in Nova Scotia, he spent his childhood in England and Canada before moving to Boston in the 1890s, then studied in Paris at the Académie Colarossi and the École des Beaux-Arts, where the tradition of French political cartooning begun by Honoré Daumier shaped his work. He built his early reputation drawing biting editorial cartoons for the New York Tribune and the socialist magazine The Masses, and taught at the Art Students League in New York from 1919 to 1930 and founded and led the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center from 1936 to 1947. He also illustrated editions of Melville's Moby Dick, Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, and Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology.

On where the work hangs: his major murals are at Rockefeller Center in New York and the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C., along with a nine-panel "History of Trade" mural made for Kaufmann's flagship department store in Pittsburgh, completed in 1929. Working with Thomas Hart Benton in the 1920s, the two are credited as founders of the 1930s American mural movement. Beyond the fixed murals, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center holds a significant body of his drawings and paintings, given his long tenure.