Boardman Robinson (1876–1952) was a Canadian-American artist, illustrator and cartoonist.Boardman Robinson was born September 6, 1876 in Nova Scotia. He spent his childhood in England and Canada, before moving to Boston in the first half of the 1890s.[1] Robinson worked his way through normal school, following a program to learn mechanical drafting.[1] Robinson first studied art at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. He would later go on to study at the Académie Colarossi and the École des Beaux-Arts, both in Paris, where he was influenced by the political cartooning of Honoré Daumier, as well as Forain and Steinlen Less