He soon enrolled full time, and his instructors included Raymond Dabb Yelland and Arthur Mathews. Also an occasional actor for his friend Charlie Chaplin e.g.
They all seem to want poppies.”Granville Redmond (1871–1935) produced paintings capturing California’s diverse topography, vegetation, and color. The regional terrain inspired him. In 1898, he returned to California and settled in Los Angeles. “The scenery excels that of France.” In 1879, his parents enrolled him as a boarding student at the California Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind in Berkeley (now California School for the Deaf in Fremont). Redmond settled in Los Angeles, where his parents lived. They showed works at the Spring Exhibition held in San Francisco in 1904.
Granville Redmond (1871–1935) produced a body of work that captures California’s diverse topography, vegetation, and color.
May 2, 2016 - USA (1871-1935) landscape painter, exponent of Tonalism and California Impressionism. Redmond's family migrated from the East Coast to San Jose, California about 1874. The couple ultimately had three children.Granville Redmond, Evening Glow, n.d. Oil on canvas, 30 x 40 in.
Granville Richard Seymour Redmond (March 9, 1871 – May 24, 1935) was an American landscape painter and exponent of Tonalism and California Impressionism. He is best known today for his landscapes ablaze with poppies.Granville Redmond, Matin d’Hiver (Winter Morning), 1895. Photo: Crocker Art Museum “Granville Redmond: The Eloquent Palette,” on view at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento through May 17, has its visual charms (California landscapes of 100 years ago) and a great backstory (deaf artist finds success despite an indifferent world). His canvases often featured the area’s trees.
Chaplin greatly admired Redmond’s paintings and even offered him a studio in which to paint.
Granville Redmond, Matin d’Hiver (Winter Morning), 1895. Granville Richard Seymour Redmond (March 9, 1871 – May 24, 1935) was an American landscape painter and exponent of Tonalism and California Impressionism. Learn how the Pop Art masters addressed the political and social issues of their time with artist Milton Bowens.Special thank you to the following donors who helped make this exhibition possible: Barbara Alexander and Thomas B. Stiles II, Anonymous, Julie Bornstein, Henry F. Borrough, Yvonne J. Boseker, Simon K. Chiu, Hanna and Kelvin Davis, Marie and Murray Demo, Thom Gianetto, Daniel Nicodemo, and Donald Merrill, Robert A. Giem, Steven J. Gordon, Diane and Martin Gordon, Blanny A. Hagenah, Reed E. and Christine A.S. Halladay, Howard E. Harmatz and Patricia Ann Vanleeuwen, The Historical Collections Council of California Art, Mark A. Judy, Gail J. and Peter M. Ochs, Elma and Earl Payton, Ray and Beverly Redfern, Donna and Mark Salzberg, Earlene and Herb Seymour, Paula and Terry Trotter, and William M. Wardlaw.Granville Redmond, California Poppies and Lupine, n.d. Oil on canvas, 26 x 36 in.
Oil on canvas, 26 x 36 in.
The actor said of his friend’s canvases:Born in Philadelphia, Redmond contracted scarlet fever as a toddler, which left him permanently deaf. This may have prompted hisfamily's decision to move from the East Coast to San Jose, California: thepossibility for his education at the Berkeley School for the Deaf.