Gouache on paper depicting an actor applying makeup: “Charles Halton making up as Brabamtio..City Opera House”

by Boardman Robinson, American

$500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

9-3/4 x 7 inches image size . Matted, framed, amd glazed. Initialed by the artist lower right. Item #225115 Boardman Robinson was born in Somerset, Nova Scotia, in 1876. He spent his childhood in Wales but moved to the United States when he enrolled at the Massachusetts Art School. Robinson worked as a cartoonist for the New York Times and the New York Tribune where he developed a distinctive style by using black crayon with ink washes.

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