Artwork Information

  • Title:

    Girl Sewing

  • Artist:

    Robinson, Theodore

  • Artist Bio:

    American, 1852–1896

  • Date:

    about 1892

  • Medium:

    Watercolor and charcoal on paperboard

  • Dimensions:

    19 7/8 x 15 inches

  • Credit Line:

    Wichita Art Museum, John W. and Mildred L. Graves Collection

  • Object Number:

    1998.35

  • Display:

    Not Currently on Display


About the Artwork

Theodore Robinson (American, 1852-1896)

Girl Sewing, ca. 1892

Watercolor on board, 19 7/8 x 15 in.

Wichita Art Museum, The John W. and Mildred L. Graves Collection

1998.35

            Theodore Robinson, after a Vermont boyhood, went to Paris in 1876 to study painting under Carolus-Duran and Gйrфme. He returned to New York in 1880, but after 1884 the artist divided his time between France and the United States. In 1887 Robinson visited Giverny where he met Monet and adopted Impressionist techniques. Always frail, he died at the early age of forty-four. 1

1George P. Tomko, Catalogue of the Roland P. Murdock Collection, Wichita Art Museum, 1972, p. 177.