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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
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art Media
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
- •Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Gardens, Garden Scenes
- •Landscape
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Snowscene, Winter Landscape
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Boston Before 1900
- •Europe
- •Old Lyme, Connecticut
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
Art Association
- •Boston Art Club
- •Lyme Art Association, Connecticut
- •National Academy of Design, Elected Member
- •National Arts Club, New York
- •Salmagundi Club, New York City
- •Society of American Artists, New York
- •Society of Independent Artists-
Art Teacher
- •Edmund Tarbell
- •Jules-Joseph Lefebvre
Art School
- •Academie Julian, Paris, Student
- •Cowles Art School, Boston, Teacher
- •School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Teacher
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Teacher
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
- •Daniel J Terra Collection
- •Neville-Strass Collection
- •Pfeil Collection-Impressionists
- •The Marshall Collection
- •US Capitol Building, Washington DC
Added Description
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Figure Specialty
- •Marine Before 1900
- •Portrait Specialty
Artist Colony
- •Cornish Art Colony, New Hampshire
- •Cos Cob Colony
- •Grez-sur-Loing, France
- •Old Lyme Artist Colony
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
- •Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889
- •Louisiana Purchase Expo, St. Louis World's Fair 1904
- •Panama Pacific Exhibition of 1915
- •World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Boston Art Club-
- •Fort Worth Art Association
- •Lotos Club
- •Lyme Art Association-Connecticut
- •National Academy of Design, New York
- •Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
- •Paris Salons
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts