32. Boardman Robinson
(1876-1952)

Horse Auction

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Robinson: Horse Auction

Horse Auction

Lithograph, ca. 1937, 203 x 295 mm. Fine impression on white wove paper with full margins, signed in pencil and as published by Associated American Artists; some pale foxing, mostly in the lower margin. Robinson was born in Nova Scotia, the son of a sea captain. His childhood was spent in Wales, but he studied in Boston and Paris before coming to New York in 1904. Like many artists of his generation, he was not only a painter and print maker, but a muralist (Rockefeller Center, Department of Justice, Washington DC), illustrator and political cartoonist. He was heavily involved in left-wing politics and though he worked for some years at the New York Tribune, he left it for a more compatible position at The Masses. He taught, with Sloan and Bellows, at the Art Students League and, finally, in 1936, moved to Colorado and became head of the Colorado Springs Art Center. Horse Auction is, of course, a Colorado print.