A Village Street, New England
Theodore ROBINSON
(American, 1852-1896)
A Village Street, New England
Dateca. 1895
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionsoverall: 22 x 26 1/4 in. (55.9 x 66.7 cm)
frame: 30 1/8 × 34 1/4 × 3 1/4 in. (76.5 × 87 × 8.3 cm)
ClassificationPAINTINGS
Credit LineSBMA, Gift of Mary and Will Richeson, Jr.
Object number1977.33
Collection
- 19th century American
Sub-Collection(s)
- American Impressionism
On View
Not on viewLabel TextRobinson established himself as a leader of American Impressionism, having made the pilgrimage to Giverny to work side-by-side with the aging Claude Monet from 1887 through 1892. By the time he made this painting, Robinson had returned to the States and settled in a Giverny of his own in his native state of Vermont. This painting, likely done at the very end of his brief life, which was cut short by chronic asthma, is characteristic of Robinson’s version of Impressionism. He captures the idyllic sight of a mother and child, out for a walk on a sunny day, using the broken dashes of pigment in vivid hues of the Impressionists, while retaining the structured compositional organization more typical of the American school.
