George Glazer Gallery - Art: Art Nouveau to Modernism - Fontainebleau and Paris Views, Mary Turlay Robinson Watercolors

George Glazer Gallery, Antiques, Antiquarian Globes, Maps and Prints, New York City

Fontainebleau & Paris Views
Original Watercolors by Mary Turlay Robinson, 1930s

Paris Park
Signed, titled, dated lower right: MTR Paris Sept. ‘47

Clouds
Titled and dated lower right: Clouds – Sept. 30, '32 – Fontainebleau

Fontainebleau (Garden Bird's-eye View)
Signed, titled and dated lower right: From the S. ludis [?] window – Fontainebleau – M. J. Robinson Oct. 1 '32

Fontainebleau (Gardens)
Titled and dated lower right: Fontainebleau, Sept. 30, ‘32

Mary Turlay Robinson (b. 1888) Scenes in France Watercolors on paper
Paris Park American: 1947 7 x 5 inches, overall Red Tag Price: $50	Three Views of Fontainebleau American: 1932 5.5 x 8.25 inches, each Red Tag Price: $250, set of three

View other watercolors by Mary Turlay Robinson here.

Scenes painted in France: three views of the Palace Fontainebleau and a Parisian street scene. The Fontainebleau was built by Henry II and Catherine de Medici in the 16th century and augmented and modified by successive generations of French monarchs into the 19th century.

Mary Turlay Robinson was a painter and lecturer based in New York City. She studied at Vassar College, the Art Students League, and the Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts. She was a member of the American Federation of Arts and the French Fresco Society and served as an officer of the French Academy in 1933. Among her exhibitions were the Salon d'Automne (1925) and Les Independents (1926) in Paris and in New York at the National Association of Women Artists and the American Woman's Association in the 1930s. Her papers are in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution.

Reference:

Falk, Peter Hastings, ed. Who Was Who in American Art. Madison, Connecticut: Sound View Press, 1985. p p. 523 (Robinson) and 286 (Hoffman).