William Smith Robinson

William Smith Robinson (1861 - 1945): Born on September 15, 1861, in East Gloucester, Massachusetts, he graduated from Boston's Massachusetts Normal School in 1884. After which he taught at the Maryland Institute. In 1897, Robinson became a member of the Salmagundi Club, as well as an Associate at the National Academy.  He won an Honorable Mention at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1900. Robinson maintained an extremely active exhibition schedule, showing works at the National Academy between 1891 and 1934, at the Carnegie Institute, at the Pennsylvania Academy, at the Art Institute of Chicago, at the Society of Independent Artists, and at the Corcoran Gallery between 1907 and 1923. In 1927, he exhibited sixty-one paintings at the Knowlton House, Connecticut College.