Bessie in Profile
Type:Painting
Size:10.50" x 13.50"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Verso
Robert William Vonnoh ART FOR SALE
1858 Hartford, Connecticut - 1933 Nice, France. Known for: Painter-landscape, portrait, marine, teacher.
In the development of American Impressionism, Robert Vonnoh is significant both as a painter and as a teacher. He was one of the earliest painters to bring European impressionism to America and his... Read full biography
In the development of American Impressionism, Robert Vonnoh is significant both as a painter and as a teacher. He was one of the earliest painters to bring European impressionism to America and his canvases had cool tones and balanced compositions with much capturing of light and atmosphere. He... Read full biography
In the development of American Impressionism, Robert Vonnoh is significant both as a painter and as a teacher. He was one of the earliest painters to bring European impressionism to America and his canvases had cool tones and balanced compositions with much capturing of light and atmosphere. He completed more than 500 commissioned portraits, and he had a distinguished teaching career in Boston and Philadelphia. Vonnoh was born in 1858 in Hartford, Connecticut and raised in Boston. He studied at... Read full biography
In the development of American Impressionism, Robert Vonnoh is significant both as a painter and as a teacher. He was one of the earliest painters to bring European impressionism to America and his canvases had cool tones and balanced compositions with much capturing of light and atmosphere. He completed more than 500 commissioned portraits, and he had a distinguished teaching career in Boston and Philadelphia. Vonnoh was born in 1858 in Hartford, Connecticut and raised in Boston. He studied at the Massachusetts Normal Art School in 1875, and attended the Academie Julian in Paris in 1880. There he studied with Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre. In 1883, he returned to Boston where he taught at the Cowles School in 1884 and at the... Read full biography
In the development of American Impressionism, Robert Vonnoh is significant both as a painter and as a teacher. He was one of the earliest painters to bring European impressionism to America and his canvases had cool tones and balanced compositions with much capturing of light and atmosphere. He completed more than 500 commissioned portraits, and he had a distinguished teaching career in Boston and Philadelphia. Vonnoh was born in 1858 in Hartford, Connecticut and raised in Boston. He studied at the Massachusetts Normal Art School in 1875, and attended the Academie Julian in Paris in 1880. There he studied with Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre. In 1883, he returned to Boston where he taught at the Cowles School in 1884 and at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1885. In 1886, he married, and he and his wife honeymooned briefly in Grez, France. The following... Read full biography
Robert William Vonnoh - Art for Sale (4 available)
Jardin de Fleurs
Type:Painting
Year:1890
Size:23.00" x 18.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
one of the first fully impressionist paintings created by an American while he was in Grez, in the late 1880's-90's
A GLORIOUS MOMENT
Type:Painting
Size:18.00" x 22.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Girl with French Poppies
Type:Painting
Year:circa 1888
Size:32.00" x 21.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Verso