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Granville Redmond (1871-1935) produced paintings capturing California's diverse topography, vegetation, and color. Representing both northern and southern parts of the state, these range from contemplative Tonalist works that evoke a quiet calm, to dramatic and colorful Impressionist scenes. Born in Philadelphia, he contracted scarlet fever as a toddler, which left him permanently deaf. Soon thereafter, his family moved to California, where he attended the California Institution for the Education of the Deaf and Dumb, and the Blind in Berkeley (now California School for the Deaf in Fremont). Based on an unpublished manuscript by the late Mildred Albronda (1912-1998), this book was written and compiled by Scott A. Shields and published in conjunction with the exhibition Granville Redmond: The Eloquent Palette, organized by the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.

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Mildred Albronda was a charter member of Docents for the Deaf at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Her role there inspired her to research and write about artists who attended the California School for the Deaf in Berkeley (now in Fremont). An artist herself, and a graduate of the University of California, San Francisco, she contributed articles to art magazines and encyclopedias and authored Douglas Tilden: Portrait of a Deaf Sculptor and The Magic Lantern Man: Theophilus Hope d'Estrella. Her work on Redmond previously served as the foundation for The Oakland Museum's 1988 exhibition and catalogue Granville Redmond. Scott A. Shields, associate director and chief curator at the Crocker Art Museum, has twenty-five years of museum experience in the Midwest and California. With a PhD in art history, and having curated more than seventy-five exhibitions, he has been the primary or sole author of numerous exhibition catalogues, including Artists at Continent's End: The Monterey Peninsula Art Colony, 1875-1907; Edgar Payne: The Scenic Journey (Pomegranate); A Touch of Blue: Landscapes by Gregory Kondos; Armin Hansen: The Artful Voyage (Pomegranate); David Ligare: California Classicist; E. Charlton Fortune: The Colorful Spirit (Pomegranate); and Richard Diebenkorn: Beginnings, 1942-1955 (Pomegranate).

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