The Magic and The Mystery

Signed and Numbered Print by Charles Raskob Robinson

22.5 x 16"

Charles Raskob Robinson was born on October 17, 1940, in Pennsylvania’s Brandywine Valley, where he was influenced early on by the Brandywine School artists, including Howard Pyle and the Wyeth family, while developing a passion for marine subjects through summers spent on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and the coast of Maine.

As a young man, he undertook remarkable river journeys, including rowing 2,000 miles down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and traveling alone 4,500 miles through the Amazon, experiences that deeply shaped his adventurous spirit and artistic perspective.

While studying political science and economics at Haverford College and later earning a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Robinson also founded Colonial Arms Foundry and gained national attention for his book "A Nation without Coins", which influenced changes to American coinage legislation.

During his career in international banking with Bankers Trust in New York City, he began studying painting at night, eventually training under notable artists including Daniel Greene and Robert Beverly Hale before leaving finance to pursue art full time.

Robinson became widely recognized for his marine paintings, exhibiting nationally and internationally, with works held in prestigious collections such as the Malcolm B. Forbes collection and museums across the United States.

A founding member and Fellow of the American Society of Marine Artists, he has also written extensively about contemporary marine artists through his long-running “Notes from Brush Hill” column, archived by institutions including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Library of Congress.

In later years, Robinson’s artistic projects included sailing a yawl across the Atlantic to create studies for his “The Crossing” series and producing ambitious exhibitions such as his thirty-five paintings of Lake Waramaug and the multimedia work "Sunrise at Sea: A Symphony in Four Movements", inspired by Antonín Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony.