Robert Vonnoh. Robert William Vonnoh was an American Impressionist painter known for his portraits and landscapes.
He traveled extensively between the American East Coast and France, more specifically the artists colony Grez-sur-Loing. Robert William Vonnoh was born on 17 September 1858 in Hartford, Connecticut.
He studied in Boston at the Massachusetts Normal Art School now called Massachusetts College of Art and Design, then in Paris at the Académie Julian under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre. He taught at the Massachusetts Normal Art School, at the Cowles Art School in Boston, at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Vonnoh became a member of the National Academy of Design in 1906. His most well-known work In Flanders Field was painted in 1890 in the fields of Grez-sur-Loing.
This large oil on canvas, 59 x 104 inches, employed active and expressive brushstrokes to evoke the fiery cadmium red of poppies, a subject matter that was popular during that time among many painters. A young woman crouches in the foreground, settling down to pick poppies in a vast field with two figures in the background. Although this was considered Vonnoh's most ambitious work, garnering great acclaim at fairs and exhibits, the painting never sold. It was not until 1919 when it was purchased directly by Joseph G. Butler, founder of The Butler
He traveled extensively between the American East Coast and France, more specifically the artists colony Grez-sur-Loing. Robert William Vonnoh was born on 17 September 1858 in Hartford, Connecticut.
He studied in Boston at the Massachusetts Normal Art School now called Massachusetts College of Art and Design, then in Paris at the Académie Julian under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre. He taught at the Massachusetts Normal Art School, at the Cowles Art School in Boston, at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
Vonnoh became a member of the National Academy of Design in 1906. His most well-known work In Flanders Field was painted in 1890 in the fields of Grez-sur-Loing.
This large oil on canvas, 59 x 104 inches, employed active and expressive brushstrokes to evoke the fiery cadmium red of poppies, a subject matter that was popular during that time among many painters. A young woman crouches in the foreground, settling down to pick poppies in a vast field with two figures in the background. Although this was considered Vonnoh's most ambitious work, garnering great acclaim at fairs and exhibits, the painting never sold. It was not until 1919 when it was purchased directly by Joseph G. Butler, founder of The Butler
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