Background
Robinson, Franklin Westcott was born on May 21, 1939 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Charles Alexander Robinson Junior and Celia (Sachs) Stillwell.
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Gabriel Metsu's numerous works--there are more than one hundred and fifty extant paintings--have an unusual charm and immediacy, ranging over a wide variety of subjects: not only genre scenes, illustrating tavern and peasant life as well as more familiar bourgeois views of the boudoir and living room, but also religious scenes, still-lifes, and, occasionally, portraits. These paintings are characterized by a direct, sometimes almost naive delight in a world of bedrooms and taverns and nurseries; his love of depicting everyday people in everyday roles, housewives and hunters, drinkers, smokers, and prostitutes, is equalled by a sheer delight in color--particularly the juxtaposition of red and green--and the qualities of paint itself, with sparkling highlights touched on the surface of an object or, sometimes, short hooks dug into the wet paint by the butt end of the brush. Illustrated with 240 black and white plates.
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Robinson, Franklin Westcott was born on May 21, 1939 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Son of Charles Alexander Robinson Junior and Celia (Sachs) Stillwell.
Bachelor, Harvard University, 1961. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1964. Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1970.
Instructor, Wellesley College, 1968-1969; assistant professor, Dartmouth College, 1969-1975; associate professor, Williams College, 1975-1979; director, Williams College Museum, 1976-1979; director, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School Design, Providence, 1979-1992; director, Herbert F. Johnson Museum Art, Cornell Univercity, Ithaca, New York, since 1992.
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Member Association Art Museum Directors, College Art Association Clubs: Century, Hope.
Married Margaret Dredge, August 14, 1967. 1 child, John Alexander.