Landscape painter, Horace Wolcott Robbins Jr., depicted mountain and lake scenery of the Adirondacks in New York and also in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. His favorite medium was watercolor,... Read full biography
Landscape painter, Horace Wolcott Robbins Jr., depicted mountain and lake scenery of the Adirondacks in New York and also in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. His favorite medium was watercolor, although he also painted in oils. Close painting associates were William Hart, Frederick Church and... Read full biography
Landscape painter, Horace Wolcott Robbins Jr., depicted mountain and lake scenery of the Adirondacks in New York and also in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. His favorite medium was watercolor, although he also painted in oils. Close painting associates were William Hart, Frederick Church and Worthington Whittredge. Robbins was born in Mobile, Alabama, went to Baltimore with his family at the age of six, and later studied at Newton University in Baltimore. He moved to New York City after... Read full biography
Landscape painter, Horace Wolcott Robbins Jr., depicted mountain and lake scenery of the Adirondacks in New York and also in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. His favorite medium was watercolor, although he also painted in oils. Close painting associates were William Hart, Frederick Church and Worthington Whittredge. Robbins was born in Mobile, Alabama, went to Baltimore with his family at the age of six, and later studied at Newton University in Baltimore. He moved to New York City after college, studied under James M. Hart in 1859, and then opened his own studio in 1860. In 1864, he accompanied Frederick E. Church to the West Indies, Jamaica, and Europe. He studied in England, Paris, and Switzerland for three years, after which he... Read full biography
Landscape painter, Horace Wolcott Robbins Jr., depicted mountain and lake scenery of the Adirondacks in New York and also in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. His favorite medium was watercolor, although he also painted in oils. Close painting associates were William Hart, Frederick Church and Worthington Whittredge. Robbins was born in Mobile, Alabama, went to Baltimore with his family at the age of six, and later studied at Newton University in Baltimore. He moved to New York City after college, studied under James M. Hart in 1859, and then opened his own studio in 1860. In 1864, he accompanied Frederick E. Church to the West Indies, Jamaica, and Europe. He studied in England, Paris, and Switzerland for three years, after which he returned to New York in 1867. Robbins had a studio in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (26)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of The National Academy of Design Volume One: 1826-1925
2004
Dearinger, David B.
672 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Paris 1889 American Artists at the Universal Exposition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Blaugrund, Annette
304 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1807-1870, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Falk, Peter Hastings
472 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
New Hampshire Scenery
1985
Campbell, Catherine
0 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
The Waters of America 19th Century Paintings of Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Waterfalls (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Wilmerding, John
104 pages
Artists in Virginia Before 1900: An Annotated Checklist
1983
Wright, R Lewis
200 pages
American Art at the Century
1977
Mayor, A. Hyatt; Mark Davis
0 pages
Recent Ideals of Americn Art
1977
Sheldon, George William
176 pages
Exhibition Record 1861-1900, National Academy of Design (Two Volumes Set) (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Naylor, Maria
1,075 pages
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860
1957
Groce, George; David Wallace
759 pages
History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953
1954
Clark, Eliot
296 pages
National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860 (Exhibition catalog)
1943
Cowdrey, Mary Bartlett
0 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A History of American Painting Revised Edition, Two Volumes in One