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2020 Antiques & Fine Art 131 waters, as well as its Mediterranean climate, which allowed him to work outdoors for extended periods (Fig. 14). In the late 1920s, Redmond, now in his fifties, suffered a serious illness, which lasted more than a year until an undisclosed operation remedied the cause. In 1930, he worked with Chaplin a final time on the romantic comedy City Lights , assuming a small role as a sculptor and helping to produce its scenic effects. He retired from acting after that, not only because of age, but because klieg lights damaged his eyesight, necessitating two operations and putting his primary profession at risk. He continued to paint, working often in Topanga Canyon, until his health once again declined. In the spring of 1935, when Redmond was hospitalized in Hollywood with a heart ailment, Chaplin covered his medical expenses. When Redmond died on May 24, 1935, he left behind his wife, Carrie, and three grown children. He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale. Chaplin, his ever-supportive friend, contributed a large and colorful f loral arrangement appropriately shaped like an artist’s palette. 11 Fig. 12: Granville Redmond and Raymond Griffith in “You’d Be Surprised,” 1926. Mildred Albronda Papers, BANC MSS 84/117 c, carton 5:6. Courtesy of The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Photographer unknown. Fig. 13: Granville Redmond (1871–1935), Approach of Night at Laguna (Rocky Cove), ca. 1903. Oil on canvas, 22 x 30 inches. Private collection. Fig. 14: Granville Redmond (1871–1935), Catalina Cliffs, the SS AVALON off Santa Catalina Island, ca. 1920. Oil on canvas, 26 x 36 inches. Private collection. 1. Elford Eddy, “Though Deaf and Dumb, Artist Paints Wonders of Nature: Granville Redmond Wins Recognition for His Work,” Los Angeles Herald , August 1, 1904. 2. Granville Redmond, quoted in Arthur Millier, “Our Artists in Person, No. 24— Granville Redmond,” Los Angeles Times , March 22, 1931. 3. Millier, “Our Artists in Person.” 4. Charlie Chaplin, quoted in Alice T. Terry, “Moving Pictures and the Deaf,” Silent Worker 30 (June 1918): 154. 5. Antony Anderson, “Of Art and Artists,” Los Angeles Times , June 4, 1922. 6. Terry, “Moving Pictures and the Deaf,” 154. 7. Theophilus Hope d’Estrella, “The Itemizer,” California News (California School for the Deaf and the Blind, Berkeley), September 1920. 8. Alice T. Terry, “Charlie Chaplin’s Friend,” The Jewish Deaf (June–July 1920): 18. 9. Charlie Chaplin, quoted in A.V. Ballin, “Granville Redmond, Artist,” Silent Worker 38 (November 1925): 89. 10. Alexander L. Pach, “With the Silent Workers,” Silent Worker 39 (December 1926): 58. 11. “Obituary,” Los Angeles Times , May 28, 1935; “Granville Redmond, Artist Protégé of Chas. Chaplin, Dies,” Los Angeles Evening Herald and Express , May 25, 1935. Granville Redmond: The Eloquent Palette is at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento from January 26 to May 17, 2020. The show then travels to the Laguna Art Museum (June 28–September 20, 2020). A catalogue published by Pomegranate Communications and authored by Scott A. Shields and Mildred Albronda accompanies the exhibition. Scott A. Shields, Ph.D., is associate director and chief curator at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California. He is curator of Granville Redmond: The Eloquent Palette.