1. Boardman "Mike" Michael Robinson was a Canadian-born American painter, illustrator and cartoonist.
11 Facts About Boardman Robinson
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Boardman Robinson was born September 6,1876, in Nova Scotia.
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Boardman Robinson spent his childhood in England and Canada, before moving to Boston in the first half of the 1890s.
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Boardman Robinson first studied art at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.
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Boardman Robinson subsequently studied at the Academie Colarossi and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, both in Paris, where he was influenced by the political cartooning of Honore Daumier, as well as Forain and Steinlen.
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The couple moved to Paris where Boardman Robinson briefly worked as art editor for Vogue, before returning to the United States in 1904.
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Boardman Robinson freelanced for a wide range of other popular publications, including Pearson's Magazine, Scribner's Magazine, Collier's, Harper's Weekly, and others.
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In 1910, Boardman Robinson took a job on the staff of the New York Tribune drawing editorial cartoons, a position which he retained for four years.
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In 1915, Boardman Robinson travelled to Eastern Europe on behalf of Metropolitan Magazine along with journalist John Reed.
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On his return from Europe, Boardman Robinson worked at the socialist monthly The Masses.
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Boardman Robinson illustrated several books, among them editions of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Dostoyevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology, and Herman Melville's Moby Dick.