Granville Redmond

Granville Redmond was born in Philadelphia in the early 1870’s. He became deaf as the result of a bout of scarlet fever when he was around three, and his family moved to California, perhaps prompted by the opportunity afforded their son at the Berkeley School for the Deaf (now the California School for the Deaf). There his artistic inclinations were encouraged and he went on to study at the California School of Design in San Francisco.

He won a scholarship from the California School of the Deaf that allowed him to travel to Paris and study at the renowned Academie Julian, and had a large canvas accepted at the prestigious Paris Salon.

Though he came to California and to painting by a different route, his influences and painting excursions around California put him in the company of the other turn of the century California plein air painters, who are often referred to as “California impressionists” read more