Robert William VONNOH
1858–1933, USA/France
Biography
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Robert William Vonnoh
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,[1] then in Paris at the Académie Julian under Gustave Boulanger and Jules Joseph Lefebvre.
He taught at the Massachusetts Normal Art School (1879-1881),[2] at the Cowles Art School in Boston (1884–1885), at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1883–1887), and at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1891–1896). Vonnoh became a member of the National Academy of Design in 1906...
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