Robert Crannell Minor Sr.

Background

Robert Minor was born on April 30, 1839, in New York City.

Education

As a young man, Robert Minor, Sr. worked as a bookkeeper in New York City but decided to study art in his early thirties. He received his art training in Paris under Diaz, and in Antwerp under Joseph Van Luppen.

Career

On his return to the United States in 1874, he opened a studio in New York. He painted for many years out of his studio in the Old University Building of New York University. Painting in the Adirondack Mountains and later in Waterford, Connecticut. Under the influence of George Inness and Alexander Helwig Wyant, he also began to paint in a Tonalist style. His painting Great Silas at Night (1890) displays his adoption of the Tonalist style while his lingering Barbizon style can be seen in A Hillside Pasture. From the 1890s , Minor, Sr. exhibited frequently with the Tonalists in New York.

He also exhibited in New York, Brooklyn, Chicago, and elsewhere in the United States, as well as in the Royal Academy of London and the salons of Paris and Antwerp. Minor was plagued with bad health during the last decade of his life, decreasing the quantity and likely the quality of his works.

After 1900, Robert Minor, Sr. lived at Waterford, Connecticut, where he died on August 4, 1904.

Achievements

• Robert Crannell Minor, Sr. was an outstanding painter, who became known for his landscapes resembling the Barbizon School.
  
  In 1897, Robert Crannell Minor, Sr. became a member of the National Academy of Design, New York.

Membership

In 1897, Robert Crannell Minor, Sr. was elected a member of the National Academy of Design, New York.

Minor, Sr. was also a member of the Society of American Artists and the Salmagundi Club.

Connections

Robert Crannell Minor, Sr. was married to Isabel A. Minor. They had one son.

Father:

Israel Minor

Israel Minor was a merchant, who made a large fortune in the pharmaceutical business.

Mother:

Charlotte L. Crannell Minor

Wife:

Isabel Augusta Smith Minor

Son:

Robert Crannell Minor, Jr.

Brother:

Albert Judson Minor

Brother:

Israel Minor, Jr.