Robert William Vonnoh
(1858–1933) American painter (1858-1933)
Robert William Vonnoh (USA, 1858–1933) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Robert William Vonnoh belongs to the chapter ‘Post-Impressionism and Symbolism’ in this site’s history of art.
Robert William Vonnoh was born in Hartford and died in Nice. Robert William Vonnoh trained at Académie Julian and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The teachers included Jules Lefebvre and Gustave Boulanger. Robert William Vonnoh worked in United States and France. The students included Robert Henri.
One of the best-known works is ‘In Flanders Field - Where Soldiers Sleep and Poppies Grow’. The works belong mainly to the genre portrait. The catalogue has 25 works by Robert William Vonnoh with free images. The dated works span the years 1801–1923. Works by Robert William Vonnoh are held by several collections, among them drawings in the National Gallery of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Butler Institute of American Art.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Sergey Korovin, Henry Ward Ranger, Richard Bergh, Nils Kreuger, and Stanislaw Tadeusz Grocholski.