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Sep 29, 2019 · Granville Redmond: The Eloquent Palette. January 26 — May 17, 2020. Granville Redmond (American, 1871–1935), Sand Dunes, n.d. . Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 in. Private collection. Granville Redmond (American, 1871–1935), Carmel Coast (Carmel Sand Dunes and Cypress), n.d. Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 inches. Collection of Paula & Terry Trotter.
- Jonathan Kantrowitz
Wikipedia article References. Granville Richard Seymour Redmond (March 9, 1871 – May 24, 1935) was an American landscape painter and exponent of Tonalism and California Impressionism. He was also an occasional actor for his friend Charlie Chaplin. Redmond was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on March 9, 1871 to a hearing family.
- American
- March 9, 1871
- Philadelphia, United States
- May 24, 1935
Bright, Happy, and True to Nature: Granville Redmond and the Passion for Poppies by Scott A. Shields. Granville Redmond (1871–1935) produced a body of work that captured California’s diverse topography, vegetation, and colour, his paintings ranging from the quiet, beautiful melancholy of Tonalism to the bold, symphonic colours of Impressionism.
- Early Years
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- Back in California
- Working with Chaplin
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GranvilleRichard Seymour Redmond was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 9, 1871to a hearing family. He contracted Scarlet Fever at around 2½ to the ageof 3; when he recovered, he was found to be deaf. This may have prompted hisfamily's decision to move from the East Coast to San Jose, California: thepossibility for his education at the Ber...
Granvilleattended the California School for the Deaf in Berkeley from 1879 to 1890 wherehis artistic talents were recognized and encouraged. There his teacher Theophilus d'Estrella taught himpainting, drawing and pantomime. When hegraduated from CSD, Redmond enrolled at another CSD: the California School ofDesign in San Francisco, where he worked f...
In 1898, hereturned to California and settled in Los Angeles, where he painted manybeautiful beach scenes. He was married in 1899 to Carrie Ann Jean, a formerstudent of the Illinois School for the Deaf. Together they had three children.It is not known if they were deaf or could hear.
While livingin Los Angeles, he became friends with Charles Chaplin, who admired the naturalexpressiveness of a Deaf person using American Sign Language. Chaplin askedRedmond to help him develop the techniques Chaplin later used in his silentfilms. Chaplin, impressed with Redmond's skill gave Redmond a studio on themovie lot, collected his paintings...
·IrvineMuseum, California; ·LagunaArt Museum, California; ·LosAngeles County Museum of Art; ·CantorArts Center, Stanford University; ·GranvilleRedmond Gallery, California ·DeYoung Museum, the Bancroft Library, San Francisco; ·CaliforniaSchool for the Deaf; ·NewYork City Museum, New York; ·OaklandMuseum, California.
·GoldMedal, W. E. Brown Award, California School of Design, 1891 ·Medal,Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904; ·SilverMedal, Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 1909
Gannon, Jack. 1981.Deaf Heritage–A Narrative History of Deaf America, Silver Spring,MD: National Association of the Deaf, p. 136 (PDF)
Note: This lecture was originally recorded on February 19, 2020, as part of the Kinglsey Lecture series. About the artist: American painter Granville Redmond...
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Granville Redmond (American, 1871-1935). Hazy Day in Antelope Valley , signed 'Granville Redmond' (lower left) and titled and dated on the artist's label '1932' (on the reverse), oil on canvas, 20 x 25 in, overall: 26 x 31in. Painted in 1932. US$ 100,000 - 150,000
