Granville Redmond

1871-1935

American Artist

Redmond was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Stricken with scarlet fever, Redmond was deaf at age three. After moving with his family to San Jose, California about 1874, he attended the Berkeley School for the deaf and was greatly influenced by Theophilus D’Estrella who taught Redmond painting, pantomime, and encouraged him in his art studies. Upon graduation, he entered the San Francisco School of Design where he studied with Matthews and Joullin. There he was awarded a scholarship for further study in Paris at Academie Julian under Constant and Laurens. While in Paris, he shared apartments with Gottardo Piazzoni and Douglas Tilden. Returning to California in 1898, he took up residence in Los Angeles. One of the foremost exponents of Impressionism in California, he is internationally known for his landscapes of rolling hills of poppies and lupines as well as coastals, moonlit scenes, and seascapes.