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3 PAINTINGS AND 9 DRAWINGS BY BOARDMAN ROBINSON PRESENTED TO METROPOLITAN MUSEUM

Three paintings and nine drawings by Boardman Robinson, well-known contempo­

rary American artist, have been presented to The Metropolitan Museum of Art by a

group of 154 of his fellow artists. The gift was announced yesterday by Roland L.

Redmond, President of the Museum, following the regular March meeting of the board

of trustees.

Accompanying the gift was a scroll bearing the names of the donors which stated

that the works by Robinson were being given to the Museum as "a gesture of the deep

affection and high esteem we hold in our hearts for our dear colleague whose spirit­

ual, aesthetic and social contributions to American Art are invaluable."

John Sloan, who has been chosen by the American Academy of Arts and Letters to

receive its gold medal for painting this year and who is a life-long friend of Mr.

Robinson, said in a statement especially prepared for the occasion that "it is

surely appropriate that examples of Robinson's work should be presented to the

Metropolitan Museum through the means of a fund contributed by 154 American artists.

As a draftsman and teacher, Robinson's influence reached many more than those who

actually attended his classes.

"Robinson was always an independent searching for his own way to graphic ex­

pression and learning from such varied sources as the Italian primitives and the

French moderns^" Mr. Sloan continued. "He belongs to the tradition of graphic real­

ists stemming back to Steinlen, Daumier, Goya, Rembrandt. His best paintings have

power because of this significant drawing and concern for the essential living

character of the real world."

Mr. Sloan added that he was confident that "when the fads of the moment have

passed, the honest strong work of the imaginative realists like Robinson will be

held in real esteem and take an important position in the history of American art."

Of the three paintings by Robinson in the Metropolitan gift, one in oil and

two in tempera, the oil, Mount Yale, is the most recent work. It was painted in

1944. The other two paintings, as well as seven of the drawings, are originals of

illustrations that the artist made for classics of American and European literature.

The tempera paintings are Zilpha Marah, from "Spoon River Anthology" (1942), and

Caught in the Line, from "Moby Dick" (1943). The drawings include all six used as

illustrations in a 1939 edition of "King Lear," and one — Nastasya Bums the Money

-- which was done for a 1935 edition of Dostoevski's "The Idiot."

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The two other drawings are Civil Prisoners, done in 1915 when Robinson was a

European correspondent for Metropolitan Magazine during the first World War, and

Return from Moscow, executed in 1920.

Born in Nova Scotia in 1876, Boardman Robinson has had a successful career as

an illustrator, muralist, painter, cartoonist and teacher. His art training began

under E. Wilbur Dean Hamilton at the Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston and

continued in at the Acade'mie Colarossi, the Acade'mie Julien and the Ecole des

Beaux-Arts. Upon completion of his studies in France, Mr. Robinson returned to the

United States where he became well known as a newspaper and magazine illustrator in

New York. He was an instructor in The Art Students League of New York from 1918 to

1929. He became director of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center in 1930, a post

which he held until 1947.

The artists who contributed toward the purchase of the paintings and drawings

presented to the Metropolitan are:

Bernard P. Arnest; David G. Asherman; Peggy Bacon; Arnold Bank; Will Barnet; Gifford Beal; Donald Bear; Thomas H. Benton; George Biddle; Henry Billings; Isabel Bishop; Arnold Blanch; Aaron Bohrod; Louis Bosa; Peyton Boswell, Jr.; Louis Bouche; Robert Brackman; Alexander Brook; Byron Browne; "Chris" Buchheit; Walter Buehr.

John Carroll; Warren Chappell; Albert Christ-Janer; Jon Corbino; Thomas Craven; Willard Cummings; Gregory d'Alessio; Gladys Rockmore Davis; Floyd Davis; Adolph Dehn; Joseph De Martini; Victor De Pauw; Dora De Vries; Edwin Dickinson; Nathaniel Dirk; Lamar Dodd; Olin Dows; Guy Pene du Bois; Edmund Duffy; Frank Vincent DuMond.

Philip Evergood; Dean Fausett; Ernest Fiene; Daniel Fitzpatrick; David Fredenthal; Dagmar Freuchen; Adams Garrett; Samuel Golden; George Grosz; John Groth; Robert Gwathmey.

Percy Ragerman; ; Joseph Hirsch; John Hovannes; Harold B. Jackson; Robert W. Johnson; Morris Kantor; Ethel Katz; Yeffe Kimball; Bernard Klonis; Stuart Klonis; Leon Kroll; .

Richard Lahey; Bernard Lamotte; Sidney Laufman; Robert Laurent; Doris Lee; Dorothea Maier Lefkaff; Julian Levi; Jack Levine; Martin Lewis; Jean Liberte; Dorothy Eisner McDonald; William C. McNulty; John McPherson; Peppino Mangravite; Reginald Marsh; Fletcher Martin; Hildreth Meiere; Gjon Mill; Barse Miller; Kenneth Hayes Miller; Bruce Mitchell; George L.K. Morris; Alice Murphy; Archie L. Musick.

Oscar Ogg; Ivan Ollnsky; Walter Pach; Waldo Peirce; Robert Philipp; Ann Cole Phillips; George Picken; M. Peter Piening; Anne Poor; Henry Varnum Poor; Louis Priscilla; Savo Radulovic; Abraham Rattner; Frank J. Reilly;-Carl Rose; Lincoln Rothschild.

Helene Sardeau; Ann Schabbehar; Henry Schnakenberg; Zoltan Sepeshy; Frederick E. Shane; Mitchell Siporin; John Sloan; Anna Soglow; Otto Soglow; Mitzi Solomon; Raphael Soyer; Eugene Speicher; Harry Sternberg; Maurice Sterne.

Lew Tilley; Haward Trafton; Nahum Tschacbasov; George Vander Sluis; Margit Varga; Vaclav Vytlacil; Everett Leslie Wald; Hudson Walker; Forbes Watson; Max Weber; Harry Wickey; Sol Wilson; Denys Wortman; Mahonri Young; .

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