NICHOLAS ANGELO
FINE ART

Born Somerset, NS Can 1876, died Colorado Springs, Colo1952. Colorado Springs painter, muralist, illustrator, cartoonist, teacher.

Educated in Canada and England, Robinson came to the US in 1894 and studied with E W Hamilton 1894-97 at the Boston Normal Art School. From 1898 to 1900 he studied in Paris at the academies Colarossi, des Beaux-Arts, and Julien. After painting for six years in Paris and San Francisco, he became the cartoonist for the NY Morning Telegraph 1907-10 and NY Tribune 1910-14, where he developed a powerful crayon technique that became the radical style. His drawings and cartoons were exhibited in the 1913 Armory Show. In 1915 he went to Russia with John Reed for Metropolitan Magazine. From 1915 to 1920 he was on the staff of The Masses, Liberator, and Harper's Weekly. Robinson was an instructor at the Art Student's League 1920-30.

In 1930 the "choice for art teacher at Fountain Valley School in Colorado Springs was the New York Socialist, Boardman Robinson. He was taken to the local Republican boson like a prodigal son and even made instructor at Broadmoor. Soon after, Broadmoor found itself without a head. The board considered both Robinson and Randall Davey, but Davey withdrew from the running because of the decline of polo at Broadmoor."