Charles Raskob Robinson
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Charles Raskob Robinson

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Charles Raskob Robinson graduated from Haverford College and received a Master of Arts from Johns Hopkins University. His first book, A Nation without Coins, which foretold of the need to replace the nation's silver coinage, received front page and editorial coverage nationally, led to his testifying before Congress and eventually involved him in the drafting of legislation that basically changed American coinage for the first time since Alexander Hamilton. He began his painting career in New York City where he attended the Art Students League and the Carnegie Hall Studios for a number of years. He has exhibited in one-man shows and national and international contemporary marine art exhibitions across the United States. His works are in a number of institutional, private and museum collections and appear in several books. He is a contributing writer for Fine Art Connoisseur Magazine. Robinson is one of two dozen Fellows in the American Society of Marine Artists, a national, not-for-profit, educational organization in which he has been a Charter Member since its founding in 1978. For twenty years he has written about artists in the Society in the Society's quarterly, the ASMA News & Journal. He writes and paints in a 1752 farmhouse in Washington, CT, formerly owned by the late artist and author, Eric Sloane. His wife, Barbara Paul Robinson, is also a writer and her most recent book is Rosemary Verey: The Life and Lessons of a Legendary Gardener. For the Bicentennial of the War of 1812 Robinson produced and directed a video documentary series the Naval War of 1812 Illustrated with image contributions from sixty museums and institutions in Europe and North America and in conjunction with the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard. This book is an outgrowth of that endeavor.
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