Granville Redmond

Granville Redmond was an American landscape painter and exponent of Tonalism and California Impressionism. He was also an occasional actor for his friend Charlie Chaplin.

Granville Richard Seymour Redmond was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 9, 1871 to a hearing family. He contracted Scarlet Fever at aroundto the age ofwhen he recovered, he was found to be deaf. This may have prompted his familys decision to move from the East Coast to San Jose, California the possibility for his education at the Berkeley School for the Deaf.

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