A Late Autumn Epic

Robert William Vonnoh was born in Hartford, Conn. but later moved to Boston where he would begin his career as an artist. Vonnoh attended the Massachusetts Normal Art School beginning in 1875 and, like many American artists, traveled to France to study at the Académie Julien in 1880. He returned to Boston for a brief period and taught at the Boston Museum School before crossing the Atlantic again, this time to settle in a studio at Grez-sur-Loing. While there he exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris (1889; 1891) where he was awarded a bronze medal and