Alexander Charles Robinson (1867-1940)

Alexander Robinson was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1867 and studied in Massachusetts at the Lowell Institute before going abroad to Paris and enrolling at the Académie Julian under Henri-Lucien Doucet and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant. He was especially drawn to the watercolor medium and back in America, he joined several art associations including the New York Water Color Club, the Philadelphia Water Color Club and the Chicago Water Color Club, as well as the American Water Color Society and the Salmagundi Club. Robinson maintained his European ties through memberships with the Sociètè Nationale des Aquarellistes and the United Arts Club in London, among others, and traveled often to Belgium and Venice, where the tempera paintings Santa Maria della Salute from Giudecca Island was done in 1907.  In October 1911, the Detroit Museum of Art held an exhibition of over fifty paintings by Robinson; two paintings of Santa Maria della Salute were listed in the catalogue but further research is needed to determine if this example was one of those shown. Additional exhibition venues include the Boston Art Club, the Pennsylvania Academy and the Art Institute of Chicago. Robinson was also a teacher, specializing in watercolors, tempera and other media and held classes in Venice, Belgium and Holland. 

References: Falk, Who Was Who in American Art, 1999; Detroit Area Library Network website, www.dalneb.lib.mi.us. 

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