Robert Cairns Dobson (1881 - 1916) Scottish American, Oil on Board. Signed in the lower right Robert Cairns Dobson. Landscape with trees and mountains in the background. Reverse says "View from the Syman Estate Across The Meadows at South Hampton, Robert Cairns Dobson 1910".  

Size: 8 x 6 in. 

#7578 . 

Robert Cairns Dobson (1881 - 1916) was active/lived in New Mexico / Scotland.  Robert Dobson is known for Portraits of Indians, landscape painting, bookplate artist, newspaper illustration. Besides his painting, drawing and illustration, Robert Dobson is known for his numerous bookplates. He attended Yale School of Arts, receiving a graduation with three-year certification in June, 1905. 

He engaged as a young man in newspaper work, first as a reporter and later as an illustrator, having studied art in London in 1901 under Cecil Rae. Dobson entered the Yale Art School in 1902. He was a member of the editorial board of the Yale Record in 1903-1904. For several years [Yale’s] The Banner and Pot-Purri were illustrated by his drawings. After leaving the Art School Dobson traveled abroad extensively, visiting galleries in Germany, Italy, Switzerland and England in the summer of 1906 and then settled in Peace Dale [RI] and began landscape and portrait painting. In New Mexico he painted a number of studies of the Santo Domingo Indians. His paintings have been exhibited in Hartford, Conn., New York and Philadelphia .