Granville Redmond
(1871-1935)

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Granville Redmond was an American landscape painter based out of California. Redmond was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania but relocated with his family to San Jose, California at a very early age. Redmond was diagnosed as deaf at the age of three and attended the Berkeley School for the Deaf, later known as the California School for the Deaf.

Redmond’s hearing impairment did not stand in the way of his career as an artist. A deaf instructor, Theophilus d’Estrella gave Redmond courses in painting, drawing and pantomime. Redmond eventually enrolled at the California School of Design in San Francisco. Redmond excelled as a student of painting and was awarded the W.E. Brown Medal. Redmond also befriended many of his peer artists including Gottardo Piazzoni, who learned American Sign Language in order to make communication easier.

In 1893 Redmond was awarded a scholarship to study painting in Paris at the Académie Julian. In Paris, Redmond studied under Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. In 1895 Redmond exhibited a painting in the Paris Salon.

After five years in France, Redmond returned to California, settling in Los Angeles. Redmond married a deaf woman and helped to raise their three children. In Los Angeles Redmond continued to paint, colorful impressionistic landscapes. Redmond often painted poppy fields in broad valleys and California mountain peaks.

Redmond also worked with Charles Chaplin, teaching the silent-actor sign language techniques. Chaplin was a promoter and collector of Redmond’s paintings. Redmond is now regarded as an important painter of the California Impressionist movement. Redmond’s paintings are in numerous museums in such California locations as Irvine, Laguna Beach, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Oakland. Redmond’s paintings are not limited to California collections, but are valued by museums and private collectors across the United States. Do you think you own a painting by Granville Redmond? Contact us. We are the experts on Granville Redmond.