"Robert VONNOH (1858, 1933) American- Autumn landscape in Connecticut- dated 1912."
Exhibition label, signed and dated on the back.
Oil on canvas, dimensions: 45.5 x 56 cm- Dimensions with frame: 64 x 73 cm.
William Vonnoh is an American impressionist painter known for his portraits and landscapes. He traveled a lot between the American east coast and France and took part in the artists' colony of Grez-sur-Loing.
Vonnoh is cited for his experimental style in the world of American impressionism.
He was born on September 17, 1858 in Hartford, Connecticut. He studied in Boston at the Massachusetts Normal Art and Design school, then in Paris at the Julian Academy with Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre.
He taught at the Massachusetts Normal Art School (1879-1881), the Cowles Art School in Boston (1884-1885), the school of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (1883-1887) and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts (1891-1896).He became a member of the National Academy of Design in 1906.
A retrospective exhibition of his works at the Madron Gallery in Chicago and the Butler Institute in 2010. The exhibition was accompanied by photographs of the artists' colony in Grez-sur-Loing, images of the artist and a bronze sculpture made by his wife, the sculptor Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872-1955).
His paintings are part of the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, among many others.
Museums: NY Metropolitan museum, Chicago, Washington, Brooklyn museum (portrait of the artist's wife), Philadelphia, Indianapolis, Worcester, Youngstown(Ohio)