Boardman Robinson

Portrait of Dr. Charles William Eliot

Boardman Robinson’s original lithograph, "Portrait of Dr. Charles William Eliot", represents both a scarce and important work of art. It is signed by Boardman Robinson in pencil to the lower right and although this impression is not numbered it must have been printed in at most a handful of impressions as no other example of this portrait has surfaced through auction house records or art dealer catalogues. Even Albert Christ-Janer in his definitive book, "Boardman Robinson"*, does not mention a lithographic portrait of Dr. Charles William Eliot. He does, however, both describe and illustrate a half-length painting of Dr. Eliot that Boardman Robinson began in 1924. I would thus assume that this original lithograph was created around the same time.

Alternatively, Christ-Janer lists in his catalogue (p. 87) a lithograph entitled, Portrait, which Boardman Robinson made in 1918 and is now in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. Unfortunately, this portrait is not illustrated in the book but Christ-Janer supplied the measurements of the lithograph and this corresponds to the size of "Portrait of Dr. Charles William Eliot".

*Albert Christ-Janer, "Boardman Robinson", Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1946, pp. 87, 111 & illustration #107.

Original Lithograph by the Canadian / American artist, Boardman Robinson.

Portrait of Dr. Charles William Eliot

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Title:	Portrait of Dr. Charles William Eliot
Artist:	Robinson, Boardman (Somerset, Nova Scotia, 1876 - Colorado Springs, 1952)
Date:	c. 1918 - 1924
Medium:	Original Lithograph
Note:	Boardman Robinson: An eminent painter and lithographer of the first half of the twentieth century, Boardman Robinson left Canada and moved to the United States in 1894 to study art at the Boston Normal Art School for the following three years. He then completed his education in Paris at the Julien and Colarossi academies. Yet Robinson found much more inspiration there in studying the graphic art of such masters as Daumier and Forain. Returning to the United States, he spent several years working in San Francisco before accepting the post of illustrator for the "New York Morning Telegraph" (1907-1910) and the "New York Tribune" (1910-1914). In his illustrations Robinson developed a powerful technique and created many famous satires directed at corporate and political structures and leaders. Joining the staff of the "New York Socialist", Robinson continued to create his brilliant drawings and lithographs after the First World War. He also contributed many drawings to radical publications such as "The Masses" and "The Liberator" and befriended Adolf Dehn (1895-1968), another major artist of the left.
	In 1930, Boardman Robinson accepted the appointment as Art Department Head of the Broadmoor Institute in Colorado Springs. The remaining years of his great career were spent in both teaching and continuing his art, including commissions for large murals for the Radio City Music Hall, New York, and Kaufman’s, in Pittsburgh.
	As an original lithographic artist Boardman Robinson ranks among the masters of twentieth century American art. His lithographic oeuvre contains satirical and social subjects, landscapes, figure studies and portraits. In this latter category he created portraits not only of his contemporaries, but of famous Americans from the past whom he admired, such as Lincoln and Walt Whitman.
	A Biographical Note Charles William Eliot (1834-1926) was president of Harvard University for a forty year period from 1869 to 1909. Under his tutelage Harvard became America’s leading institution for academics. Charles Eliot reformed undergraduate and graduate programs and was even instrumental in improving the game of American football. After his retirement he actively participated in civil service reform and was a strong advocate of organizations for world peace. President Theodore Roosevelt once said of Charles W. Eliot, “He is the only man in the world I envy.”
	In 1910, Charles Eliot edited the fifty volume set of "The Harvard Classics". The selection was popularly known as, ‘Dr. Eliot’s Five-Foot Shelf of Books’. C. W. Eliot was also the author of such books as The Religion of the Future (1909) and "The Durable Satisfactions of Life" (1910).
Size:	13 X 9 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Buy Now	Price: $695.00 US
Condition:	Printed on laid paper with the ‘B.F.K. Rives’ watermark and with wide, full margins as printed between 1918 and 1924. Signed in pencil by the artist to the lower right. A finely printed impression and in very good condition throughout. "Portrait of Dr. Charles William Eliot" represents a prime and scarce example of the famous art of Boardman Robinson.
Subject:	Boardman Robinson, "Portrait of Dr. Charles William Eliot", Charles W. Eliot, Charles Eliot, original lithograph, satires directed at corporate and political structures, the Broadmoor Institute, president of Harvard University, American football, "The Harvard Classics".
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