  | Book Details Title: Granville Redmond: The Eloquent Palette |
Book DescriptionFrom the Inside Flap Granville Redmond (1871-1935) produced paintings capturing California’s diverse topography, vegetation, and color. Representing both northern and southern parts of the state, these range from contemplative Tonalist works that evoke a quiet calm, to dramatic and colorful Impressionist scenes. Born in Philadelphia, he contracted scarlet fever as a toddler, which left him permanently deaf. Soon thereafter, his family moved to California, where he attended 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 subsequently trained at the California School of Design in San Francisco and the Acadmie Julian in Paris. Upon his 1898 return to California after four years abroad, he opened his first painting studio in Los Angeles, where he painted landscapes. He ultimately became best known for colorful Impressionist depictions of California hillsides and meadows ablaze with poppies and other native flora. Silent film star Charlie Chaplin, Redmond’s friend and supporter, said of these paintings, “There’s such a wonderful joyousness about them all. Look at the gladness in that sky, the riot of color in those flowers. Sometimes I think that the silence in which he lives has developed in him some sense, some great capacity for happiness in which we others are lacking.” Today, Redmond is considered one of California’s top early artists. Based on an unpublished manuscript by the late Mildred Albronda (1912-1998), this book was written and compiled by Scott A. Shields and published in conjunction with the exhibition Granville Redmond: The Eloquent Palette, organized by the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento. It includes more than 135 reproductions of Redmond’s paintings, photos of the artist and his family, and other supplemental images. Five chapters and an extensive chronology document the artist’s extraordinary life and art. Read more About the Author Scott A. Shields is the associate director and chief curator at the Crocker Art Museum. He has curated more than 75 exhibitions and has been the primary or sole author of numerous exhibition catalogs. Read more Customers Review: Splendid layout, these works really get the widescreen treatment in this perfectly sized exhibition catalogue, granvilles work gets past due respect in terms of his artistic skill and his role in early Western landscape painting, the only reason I gave just 4 stars is the repetitive subject matter of poppies in bloom on the California hills, it often felt like you were seeing the same image over again, but the colors are worth the price alone, and again the oversize format really brings up the dramatic effect of these classic American landscapes.Plus the writing is very informative and inspirational. Highly recommend. | |
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