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Private Collection, Montreal
Private Collection, Vancouver
Sold sale of Fine Canadian Art, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, November 2, 2005, lot 038
Private Collection, Vancouver

In 1903, Albert Robinson traveled to Paris and studied at the Académie Julian under William Bougereau and at the École des beaux-arts, returning home to Hamilton, Ontario in 1905. In 1908 he moved to Montreal, after being offered the use of a studio there by Mr. and Mrs. William Davis. Through the Davises, he met acclaimed painters William Brymner, Maurice Cullen and Edmund Dyonnet. One could say that this early work is more reminiscent of fellow Canadian Impressionist James Wilson Morrice, whose work Robinson would certainly have been aware of. The tonality and colour palette of the work suggests Morrice’s influence on Robinson. In this painting, Robinson positions the horse-drawn carts against a screen of bare trees, and sets up an interesting pattern contrast between the vertical fence posts and the round wheel form. He gives the snow luscious cream tones, and the sky a robin’s egg blue. Although it is winter, the atmosphere is warm with the presence of the horses and their drivers.

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