Robert William Vonnoh Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Robert William Vonnoh Art Value Price Guide

Oct. 18, 2024
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH (1858-1933). Symphony. oil on canvas 18 x 22 in. (45.
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH (1858-1933). Symphony. oil on canvas 18 x 22 in. (45.7 x 55.9 cm.).
Christie's
Sep. 21, 2024
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH (American 1858-1933) A PAINTING, "Portrait of Mrs. Danford Barney," 20TH CENTURY
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH (American 1858-1933) A PAINTING, "Portrait of Mrs. Danford Barney," 20TH CENTURY, oil on canvas, signed L/L, "Vonnoh;" 40" x 34", framed 45 1/2" x 39 1/2".
Simpson Galleries, LLC
Aug. 24, 2024
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH (NY/CT/FRANCE, 1858-1933)
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH (NY/CT/FRANCE, 1858-1933) Haystacks under a Glaring Sun, oil on canvas, signed lower right and dated 1891, housed in the original gilt gesso deep cove frame, OS: 21" x 24", SS: 11 1/2" x 15 1/2".
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
Feb. 20, 2024
Robert William Vonnoh (1858 - 1933)(American, 1858-1933) the old homestead, Pennsylvania, house in field, oil on board, signed lower right, board size 12 x 16 inches, overall frame 19 1/4 x 23 1/4 inches.
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Robert William Vonnoh (1858 - 1933)(American, 1858-1933) the old homestead, Pennsylvania, house in field, oil on board, signed lower right, board size 12 x 16 inches, overall frame 19 1/4 x 23 1/4 inches.
Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions
Feb. 16, 2024
Painting, Robert William Vonnoh
Est: $15,000 - $20,000
Robert William Vonnoh (American, 1858-1933), "Fantasy: Blue and Yellow," 1912, oil on canvas, signed lower right, canvas: 36.25"h x 30"w, overall (with frame): 45.25"h x 39.25"w. Provenance: Property of a Piedmont, CA estate. Exhibited: Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York, 1916.
Clars Auctions
Jan. 30, 2024
Robert Vonnoh (1891 - 1923) American
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
Robert Vonnoh (1891 - 1923) Oil on Canvasboard, Signed Lower Right, Measures (12 x 15 inches) w/frame (15.5 x 18 inches) is known for Painting
Cutler Bay Auctions
Nov. 15, 2023
Robert Vonnoh
Est: $15,000 - $25,000
American 1858-1933 A Late Autumn Epic Signed Vonnoh (ll); signed Robert Vonnoh and inscribed 145 E. 23 St, NY on the reverse; signed Robert Vonnoh and inscribed as titled and with address on the stretcher Oil on canvas 36 x 36 1/2 inches (91.4 x 92.7 cm) Provenance: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. William Preston Harrison, Los Angeles Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Sotheby's, New York, May 29, 1986, lot 195 R. H. Love Galleries, Chicago Private collection, New York Exhibited: Philadelphia, PA, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Annual Exhibition, 1920, no. 185 New York, Arlington Gallery, Robert Vonnoh Retrospective, Jan. 1921 New York, Club Gallery, Annual Exhibition of Artist Members of the Lotus Club, 1921 Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Paintings by Contemporary American Artists, Sept. - Oct., 1924, no. 12, illus. Literature: American Art News, Jan. 8, 1921, p. 4 American Art News, Feb. 19, 1921, p. 7 Frame rub; buckling in the lower left corner.
DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers
Jan. 24, 2023
Robert Vonnoh Impressionist Landscape Painting
Est: $6,000 - $8,000
Robert Vonnoh (American, 1858-1933). Impressionist oil on canvas laid board painting titled "Village Church," depicting a small village nestled amongst lush green hills with a small stream curving through the fields. Signed along the lower right; titled along the verso. Lot Essay: Robert Vonnoh was one of the first American artists to bring European Impressionism to the United States. A celebrated Impressionist landscape and portrait painter and a respected teacher, Vonnoh influenced many American artists. His students included William Glackens, Robert Henri and John Sloan, who would later form the influential Ashcan school. Vonnoh was born in Hartford, Connecticut and studied at the Massachusetts Normal Art School, following his practice at the public schools with a lithography shop. Upon graduation, he started his teaching career at his alma mater and shared his pioneering artistic skills at multiple other institutions that include Roxbury Evening Drawing school, East Boston Evening Drawing School, the Cowles Art School, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia. In 1881, Vonnoh made the first of many trips to France and enrolled in the Academi Julian in Paris. Studying under Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre, he continued improving upon his artistic skills, fully immersing himself into the prestigious art scene of Paris. After two years, he returned to his teaching career in Boston. Shortly after his marriage to his first wife Grace D. Farrell, he returned to live and work in France between 1887 and 1890. Settling in Grez, France, he began exploring the revolutionary technique of impressionism, which later became his representative style. Between 1887 and 1890, his adoption of the impressionistic aesthetic peaks in his paintings; however, like most American artists' works, his paintings do not show the complete dissolution of forms into pure light and color as is echoed in the works of his French counterparts. Many of his paintings at this time were accepted into the Paris Salon; others were sent to the U.S. for exhibitions. Vonnoh returned to the U.S. in 1891 and continued his teaching career at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, until 1894, with notable students in Robert Henri, William Glackens, and Maxfield Parrish. He remarried in 1899 to an American sculptor Bessie O. Potter after his first wife's death. Beginning in 1906, Vonnoh spent summers in Old Lyme, CT, where he became one of the leading figures of the art colony there. He also returned to France on a regular basis and finally moved there in 1922 where he resided until his death in 1933.
Revere Auctions
Dec. 06, 2022
Robert Vonnoh (American, 1858-1933) Spring in the Meadow
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
Robert Vonnoh (American, 1858-1933) Spring in the Meadow Signed 'Vonnoh' bottom left, oil on canvas 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 60.9cm) Provenance Private Collection, New York. Frame: 26 1/2 x 30 1/2 in.
Freeman's | Hindman
Dec. 04, 2022
Robert Vonnoh (American, 1858–1933) Flowering Apple Tree
Est: $10,000 - $15,000
Robert Vonnoh (American, 1858–1933) Flowering Apple Tree Signed and dated 'R. W. Vonnoh 88' bottom left; also with original preparer's stencil verso, oil on canvas 18 x 15 in. (45.7 x 38.1cm) Provenance Private Collection, California. Note Born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1858, Robert Vonnoh studied at the Massachusetts Normal Art School and, thereafter, at Paris’s Académie Julian. An accomplished painter and teacher, Vonnoh was vital in introducing European Impressionism to American audiences and art students, both at Boston’s School of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His rich legacy as an educator—his pupils included Robert Henri, William Glackens, and Maxfield Parrish, as well as Pennsylvania Impressionists, Edward Redfield and Walter Elmer Schofield—is surpassed only by the quality of his own work. A well-awarded and widely-exhibited artist, Vonnoh’s portraits, landscapes, and experiments in color align him with the greatest painters of his generation. Enamored with the European Impressionist paintings he encountered in the mid-1880s—at the so-called “Foreign Exhibition” (1883) in Boston and, later, at an American Art Association-organized show in New York City (1886)—Vonnoh and his first wife, Grace D. Farrell, departed for Grez-sur-Loing, an artists’ colony on the outskirts of France’s Fontainebleau Forest. It was during this period, 1887-1890, that he would produce among his most compelling works. Studies and full-fledged landscapes demonstrate the artist’s mastery of Impressionist principles: unblended brushwork, heightened color, generous impasto, and careful attention to both light and atmosphere. Poppies (1888, Indianapolis Museum of Art), a vigorous, mosaic-like view of a Grez-area poppy field, is a testament to Vonnoh’s penchant for formal experimentation, and a turning point in his style. Flowering Apple Tree, the present lot, is no less impressive. Likely painted outdoors, en plein air, Vonnoh trains his eye on an apple tree in bloom. Staccato brushwork, a textured surface, and brilliant juxtapositions of green, white, lavender, and purple recommend the scene. A subtle manipulation of value creates an impression of long shadows—first and foremost, from the fence and titular tree. On the horizon, at some distance, are the roofs and chimneys of adjacent homes—a recurring detail in Vonnoh’s Grez-era images. An 18 x 15-inch oil on canvas, Flowering Apple Tree was likely executed in the spring of 1888. Here, the lightness and brightness of the season take center stage. The freshness of the scene and the delicacy of Vonnoh’s touch complement what is, for all intents and purposes, one of his strongest “portraits”—another genre in which he distinguished himself. Vonnoh’s technique and sensitivity to the effects of sun and season recall the work of Claude Monet, the artist’s lifelong inspiration. Vonnoh would have witnessed Monet’s paintings firsthand in Boston and New York—indeed, a pair of the latter’s poppy fields was featured in the American Art Association exhibition of 1886—to say nothing of the reputation Monet enjoyed among American expatriates. His colorful landscapes, and haystacks in particular, were a direct influence on Vonnoh, who folded them into his own repertoire in the 1890s and early 1900s. But whereas Monet and others embraced a near-total dissolution of form, Vonnoh stopped short. Like French Impressionism, Flowering Apple Tree boasts a lyrical, almost poetic quality—an interplay of light, color and shadow—yet it retains a coherent pictorial structure typical of American Impressionism. A tour de force of Vonnoh’s mature work, the painting commingles the best of the two styles. The unlined canvas (framed under glass) in excellent original condition, with no sign of inpainting as seen under UV light. Some light craquelure (flat and stable) in the sky at upper right. Frame: 25 1/2 x 22 1/4 x 1 3/4 in. To request additional information, please email Raphaël Chatroux at rchatroux@freemansauction.com
Freeman's | Hindman
Nov. 12, 2022
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH AMERICAN 1858-1933
Est: $1,500 - $3,000
Fall Landscape, oil on board, 9 x 12 in (22.9 x 30.5 cm), framed 14 1/2 x 17 1/2 in (36.8 x 44.5 cm), signed lower right
Trinity International Auctions & Appraisals, LLC
Oct. 27, 2022
ROBERT VONNOH, American (1858-1933), Beside the River (Grez), 1890, oil on canvas, 18 x 22 inches
Est: $25,000 - $30,000
ROBERT VONNOH American, (1858-1933) Beside the River (Grez), 1890 oil on canvas signed, dated and inscribed lower right "Vonnoh Grez 1890 ~"
Shannon's
Aug. 27, 2022
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH (NY/CT/FRANCE, 1858-1933)
Est: $5,000 - $7,000
"Girl from the North", circa 1908-1911, oil on canvas, signed "Vonnoh" upper left, titled on Deborah Force Fine Art, Inc. of 13 East 69th St label verso, in silverleaf Arts & Crafts carved frame, OS: 19 1/2" x 17 3/4", SS: 13 1/2" x 10 3/4", fine condition.
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
Jul. 17, 2022
Painting, Robert William Vonnoh
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
Robert William Vonnoh (American/French, 1858-1933), A Path Through the Forest, oil on canvas, signed lower left, canvas: 16"h x 20"w, overall (with frame): 24"h x 28"w
Clars Auctions
May. 22, 2022
Painting, Robert William Vonnoh
Est: $2,000 - $4,000
Robert William Vonnoh (American/French, 1858-1933), Farm in Upstate New York, oil on board, signed lower right, board: 12"h x 24"w, overall (with frame): 19.5"h x 31.5"w
Clars Auctions
May. 22, 2022
Painting, Robert William Vonnoh
Est: $2,000 - $4,000
Robert William Vonnoh (American/French, 1858-1933), A Path Through the Forest, oil on canvas, signed lower left, canvas: 16"h x 20"w, overall (with frame): 24"h x 28"w
Clars Auctions
Jan. 25, 2022
Robert William Vonnoh (American 1858 - 1933) oil on artist board, Cherry Tree by House, 11 x 14 inches, overall framed size 17-1/2 x 20-1/2 inches
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
Robert William Vonnoh (American 1858 - 1933) oil on artist board, Cherry Tree by House, 11 x 14 inches, overall framed size 17-1/2 x 20-1/2 inches
Bill Hood & Sons Arts & Antiques Auctions
Jan. 02, 2022
Robert Vonnoh (NY,CT,France,1858-1933) pastel painting antique
Est: $1,300 - $1,600
ARTIST: Robert William Vonnoh (New York, Connecticut, French, 1858 - 1933) NAME: European Chateau MEDIUM: pastel on heavy paper CONDITION: Some damages to corners and edges. Some pinholes along edges. SIGHT SIZE: 13 x 20 inches / 33 x 50 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed SIGNATURE: lower right SIMILAR ARTISTS: John Joseph Enneking, Willard Leroy Metcalf, Childe Hassam, Theodore Wendel, Robert Lewis Reid, J Alden Weir, Theodore Robinson, John Henry Twachtman, Louis Ritman, Edward Henry Potthast, Edmund Charles Tarbell, William Merritt Chase, Richard Edward Miller, Edward Willis Redfield, Bessie Onahotema Potter Keyes Vonnoh, Theodore Earl Butler CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 117208 US Shipping $60 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Robert Vonnoh was one of the first American artists to bring European Impressionism to the United States. A celebrated Impressionist landscape and portrait painter and a gifted and respected teacher, Vonnoh influenced many American artists. His students included William Glackens, Robert Henri and John Sloan, who would later form influential the Ashcan school.Although Vonnoh was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1858, he moved to the Boston area with his German-American parents as a youth and began his artistic studies there. He attended the public schools, trained in a lithography shop, and eventually enrolled in the Massachusetts Normal Art School, where he was a pupil under George H. Bartlett and met Edmund Tarbell. After graduation in 1879, Vonnoh began his long and illustrious teaching career, first at his alma mater, then at the Roxbury Evening Drawing School and the Thayer Academy in South Braintree. He also taught at the East Boston Evening Drawing School, the Cowles Art School, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.Throughout his career, Vonnoh traveled frequently between America and France. In 1881, Vonnoh made the first of many trips to France. He enrolled in the Academie Julian and was a student under Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. He frequented the Louvre and had his paintings accepted into the prestigious Paris Salon. During this period in Paris, the French Impressionists were exhibiting their work at the Georges Petit Galleries and at Durand-Ruel, but it is not known if Vonnoh saw these exhibitions. After two years, he returned to his teaching career in Boston in 1883. Between 1883 and 1886, Vonnoh was quite active in the artistic circles of Boston, He saw the two great shows of European Impressionist art in the United States the "Foreign Exhibition" held at the Mechanics Building in Boston in 1883 and the exhibition of French Impressionist art in New York in 1886, which was organized by the American Art Association and lent by Durand-Ruel. Shortly after his marriage to his first wife Grace D. Farrell he return to live and work in France again between 1887 and 1890.Soon after his arrival in France, Vonnoh settled in the area of GrГЁz-sur-Loing near the Forest of Fontainebleau. He began exploring in earnest this revolutionary technique of impressionism and mastered it quite quickly. His adoption of the impressionist aesthetic has been attributed to the influence of Irish painter Roderic O'Conor, who had immersed himself in impressionism and who may have been in Grez during this period. Between 1887 and 1890, Vonnoh fully adopted the vanguard art of the impressionists, but like most Americans he never went as far as his French counterparts in dissolving forms into pure light and color. Many of the paintings he created during this time were accepted into the Paris Salon, others were sent to Philadelphia for a one-person show at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1889. In 1891, Vonnoh returned to the United States and assumed the position of principal instructor in portrait and landscape painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, which he held through 1894. He also remarried, after his first wife's death, to American sculptor Bessie O. Potter in 1899.During his years in America, between 1891 and 1907 and again from 1912 to 1920, Vonnoh was considered one of the foremost landscape and portrait painters in the country. Around 1905, the Vonnohs discovered the artists' colony at Old Lyme, Connecticut, Vonnoh spent many summers there over the next twenty-five years and exhibited regularly at the Lyme Art Association exhibitions. After 1925 Vonnoh's eyesight began to deteriorate, bringing an end to his highly productive career. He returned to GrГЁz-sur-Loing, France and died of a heart attack in Nice in 1933.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Dec. 07, 2021
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH (AMERICAN, 1858-1933) PLEASANT VALLEY
Est: $5,000 - $8,000
Robert William Vonnoh (American, 1858-1933) Pleasant Valley Signed bottom left, oil on canvas (24 x 30 in. (61 x 76.2cm)) Footnote: Exhibited "An American View: The Hosek Collection of American Art," Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts, Spring, Texas, August 22 - December 20, 2009. Condition report: Frame: 28 x 34 x 2 1/2 in.
Freeman's | Hindman
Oct. 28, 2021
ROBERT VONNOH, American (1858-1933), Pleasant Valley, Old Lyme, oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
ROBERT VONNOH American, (1858-1933) Pleasant Valley, Old Lyme oil on canvas signed lower right "Vonnoh"
Shannon's
Oct. 10, 2021
Robert Vonnoh (NY,CT,France,1858-1933) pastel painting antique
Est: $1,400 - $1,800
ARTIST: Robert William Vonnoh (New York, Connecticut, French, 1858 - 1933) NAME: European Chateau MEDIUM: pastel on heavy paper CONDITION: Some damages to corners and edges. Some pinholes along edges. SIGHT SIZE: 13 x 20 inches / 33 x 50 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed SIGNATURE: lower right SIMILAR ARTISTS: John Joseph Enneking, Willard Leroy Metcalf, Childe Hassam, Theodore Wendel, Robert Lewis Reid, J Alden Weir, Theodore Robinson, John Henry Twachtman, Louis Ritman, Edward Henry Potthast, Edmund Charles Tarbell, William Merritt Chase, Richard Edward Miller, Edward Willis Redfield, Bessie Onahotema Potter Keyes Vonnoh, Theodore Earl Butler CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 117208 US Shipping $60 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Robert Vonnoh was one of the first American artists to bring European Impressionism to the United States. A celebrated Impressionist landscape and portrait painter and a gifted and respected teacher, Vonnoh influenced many American artists. His students included William Glackens, Robert Henri and John Sloan, who would later form influential the Ashcan school.Although Vonnoh was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1858, he moved to the Boston area with his German-American parents as a youth and began his artistic studies there. He attended the public schools, trained in a lithography shop, and eventually enrolled in the Massachusetts Normal Art School, where he was a pupil under George H. Bartlett and met Edmund Tarbell. After graduation in 1879, Vonnoh began his long and illustrious teaching career, first at his alma mater, then at the Roxbury Evening Drawing School and the Thayer Academy in South Braintree. He also taught at the East Boston Evening Drawing School, the Cowles Art School, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.Throughout his career, Vonnoh traveled frequently between America and France. In 1881, Vonnoh made the first of many trips to France. He enrolled in the Academie Julian and was a student under Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. He frequented the Louvre and had his paintings accepted into the prestigious Paris Salon. During this period in Paris, the French Impressionists were exhibiting their work at the Georges Petit Galleries and at Durand-Ruel, but it is not known if Vonnoh saw these exhibitions. After two years, he returned to his teaching career in Boston in 1883. Between 1883 and 1886, Vonnoh was quite active in the artistic circles of Boston, He saw the two great shows of European Impressionist art in the United States the "Foreign Exhibition" held at the Mechanics Building in Boston in 1883 and the exhibition of French Impressionist art in New York in 1886, which was organized by the American Art Association and lent by Durand-Ruel. Shortly after his marriage to his first wife Grace D. Farrell he return to live and work in France again between 1887 and 1890.Soon after his arrival in France, Vonnoh settled in the area of GrГЁz-sur-Loing near the Forest of Fontainebleau. He began exploring in earnest this revolutionary technique of impressionism and mastered it quite quickly. His adoption of the impressionist aesthetic has been attributed to the influence of Irish painter Roderic O'Conor, who had immersed himself in impressionism and who may have been in Grez during this period. Between 1887 and 1890, Vonnoh fully adopted the vanguard art of the impressionists, but like most Americans he never went as far as his French counterparts in dissolving forms into pure light and color. Many of the paintings he created during this time were accepted into the Paris Salon, others were sent to Philadelphia for a one-person show at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1889. In 1891, Vonnoh returned to the United States and assumed the position of principal instructor in portrait and landscape painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, which he held through 1894. He also remarried, after his first wife's death, to American sculptor Bessie O. Potter in 1899.During his years in America, between 1891 and 1907 and again from 1912 to 1920, Vonnoh was considered one of the foremost landscape and portrait painters in the country. Around 1905, the Vonnohs discovered the artists' colony at Old Lyme, Connecticut, Vonnoh spent many summers there over the next twenty-five years and exhibited regularly at the Lyme Art Association exhibitions. After 1925 Vonnoh's eyesight began to deteriorate, bringing an end to his highly productive career. He returned to GrГЁz-sur-Loing, France and died of a heart attack in Nice in 1933.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Sep. 19, 2021
Attributed Robert Vonnoh (1891-1923) Oil on Board
Est: $400 - $600
Loing River near Grez, France, oil on board. Overall size: 25 x 18 1/2 in. Sight size: 17 1/2 x 11 in. Please contact Nic at Info@premiershipment.com for an estimated shipping quote prior to bidding. Please note that all items are sold as is, and conditions should be asked prior to sale.
Sarasota Estate Auction
Jul. 04, 2021
Robert Vonnoh (NY,CT,France,1858-1933) pastel painting antique
Est: $1,500 - $1,900
ARTIST: Robert William Vonnoh (New York, Connecticut, French, 1858 - 1933) NAME: European Chateau MEDIUM: pastel on heavy paper CONDITION: Some damages to corners and edges. Some pinholes along edges. SIGHT SIZE: 13 x 20 inches / 33 x 50 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed SIGNATURE: lower right SIMILAR ARTISTS: John Joseph Enneking, Willard Leroy Metcalf, Childe Hassam, Theodore Wendel, Robert Lewis Reid, J Alden Weir, Theodore Robinson, John Henry Twachtman, Louis Ritman, Edward Henry Potthast, Edmund Charles Tarbell, William Merritt Chase, Richard Edward Miller, Edward Willis Redfield, Bessie Onahotema Potter Keyes Vonnoh, Theodore Earl Butler CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 117208 US Shipping $60 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Robert Vonnoh was one of the first American artists to bring European Impressionism to the United States. A celebrated Impressionist landscape and portrait painter and a gifted and respected teacher, Vonnoh influenced many American artists. His students included William Glackens, Robert Henri and John Sloan, who would later form influential the Ashcan school.Although Vonnoh was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1858, he moved to the Boston area with his German-American parents as a youth and began his artistic studies there. He attended the public schools, trained in a lithography shop, and eventually enrolled in the Massachusetts Normal Art School, where he was a pupil under George H. Bartlett and met Edmund Tarbell. After graduation in 1879, Vonnoh began his long and illustrious teaching career, first at his alma mater, then at the Roxbury Evening Drawing School and the Thayer Academy in South Braintree. He also taught at the East Boston Evening Drawing School, the Cowles Art School, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.Throughout his career, Vonnoh traveled frequently between America and France. In 1881, Vonnoh made the first of many trips to France. He enrolled in the Academie Julian and was a student under Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. He frequented the Louvre and had his paintings accepted into the prestigious Paris Salon. During this period in Paris, the French Impressionists were exhibiting their work at the Georges Petit Galleries and at Durand-Ruel, but it is not known if Vonnoh saw these exhibitions. After two years, he returned to his teaching career in Boston in 1883. Between 1883 and 1886, Vonnoh was quite active in the artistic circles of Boston, He saw the two great shows of European Impressionist art in the United States the "Foreign Exhibition" held at the Mechanics Building in Boston in 1883 and the exhibition of French Impressionist art in New York in 1886, which was organized by the American Art Association and lent by Durand-Ruel. Shortly after his marriage to his first wife Grace D. Farrell he return to live and work in France again between 1887 and 1890.Soon after his arrival in France, Vonnoh settled in the area of GrГЁz-sur-Loing near the Forest of Fontainebleau. He began exploring in earnest this revolutionary technique of impressionism and mastered it quite quickly. His adoption of the impressionist aesthetic has been attributed to the influence of Irish painter Roderic O'Conor, who had immersed himself in impressionism and who may have been in Grez during this period. Between 1887 and 1890, Vonnoh fully adopted the vanguard art of the impressionists, but like most Americans he never went as far as his French counterparts in dissolving forms into pure light and color. Many of the paintings he created during this time were accepted into the Paris Salon, others were sent to Philadelphia for a one-person show at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1889. In 1891, Vonnoh returned to the United States and assumed the position of principal instructor in portrait and landscape painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, which he held through 1894. He also remarried, after his first wife's death, to American sculptor Bessie O. Potter in 1899.During his years in America, between 1891 and 1907 and again from 1912 to 1920, Vonnoh was considered one of the foremost landscape and portrait painters in the country. Around 1905, the Vonnohs discovered the artists' colony at Old Lyme, Connecticut, Vonnoh spent many summers there over the next twenty-five years and exhibited regularly at the Lyme Art Association exhibitions. After 1925 Vonnoh's eyesight began to deteriorate, bringing an end to his highly productive career. He returned to GrГЁz-sur-Loing, France and died of a heart attack in Nice in 1933.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Jun. 12, 2021
ROBERT VONNOH (American 1858-1933) A PAINTING, "Lady at Picnic,"
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
ROBERT VONNOH (American 1858-1933) A PAINTING, "Lady at Picnic," oil on canvas on cardboard, signed L/R, "Vonnoh." 12" x 16"
Simpson Galleries, LLC
May. 20, 2021
Robert William Vonnoh (1858-1933) Portrait of Gardner Kendall 17 7/8 x 14 1/8in (45.4 x 35.9cm) (Painted in 1884.)
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Robert William Vonnoh (1858-1933) Portrait of Gardner Kendall signed and dated 'R.W. Vonnoh. / 84.' (lower left) oil on canvas 17 7/8 x 14 1/8in (45.4 x 35.9cm) Painted in 1884. For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website
Bonhams
Apr. 29, 2021
Robert Vonnoh, Portrait of William D. Winsor
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
Robert Vonnoh Portrait of William D. Winsor 1919 oil on canvas 30 h × 25 w in (76 × 63 cm) Signed and dated to lower right 'Robert Vonnoh 1919'. Provenance: CIGNA Museum and Art Collection | Private Collection | Pook & Pook, Downington, PA, CIGNA Objects from the Smithsonian, 19 November 2010, Lot 138 | Private Collection condition: Work is in good overall condition and has been wax lined. Minor hairline cracking throughout with one small line of light surface accretion to lower left just above signature. Small spots of inpainting are present throughout composition, however, figure's left shoulder shows larger areas of inpainting over what appear to be repairs. Framed without glazing measuring 38 x 33 inches.
Rago Arts and Auction Center
Apr. 04, 2021
Robert Vonnoh (NY,CT,France,1858-1933) pastel painting antique
Est: $1,450 - $1,600
ARTIST: Robert William Vonnoh (New York, Connecticut, French, 1858 - 1933) NAME: European Chateau MEDIUM: pastel on heavy paper CONDITION: Some damages to corners and edges. Some pinholes along edges. SIGHT SIZE: 13 x 20 inches / 33 x 50 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed SIGNATURE: lower right SIMILAR ARTISTS: John Joseph Enneking, Willard Leroy Metcalf, Childe Hassam, Theodore Wendel, Robert Lewis Reid, J Alden Weir, Theodore Robinson, John Henry Twachtman, Louis Ritman, Edward Henry Potthast, Edmund Charles Tarbell, William Merritt Chase, Richard Edward Miller, Edward Willis Redfield, Bessie Onahotema Potter Keyes Vonnoh, Theodore Earl Butler CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 117208 US Shipping $60 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Robert Vonnoh was one of the first American artists to bring European Impressionism to the United States. A celebrated Impressionist landscape and portrait painter and a gifted and respected teacher, Vonnoh influenced many American artists. His students included William Glackens, Robert Henri and John Sloan, who would later form influential the Ashcan school.Although Vonnoh was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1858, he moved to the Boston area with his German-American parents as a youth and began his artistic studies there. He attended the public schools, trained in a lithography shop, and eventually enrolled in the Massachusetts Normal Art School, where he was a pupil under George H. Bartlett and met Edmund Tarbell. After graduation in 1879, Vonnoh began his long and illustrious teaching career, first at his alma mater, then at the Roxbury Evening Drawing School and the Thayer Academy in South Braintree. He also taught at the East Boston Evening Drawing School, the Cowles Art School, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.Throughout his career, Vonnoh traveled frequently between America and France. In 1881, Vonnoh made the first of many trips to France. He enrolled in the Academie Julian and was a student under Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. He frequented the Louvre and had his paintings accepted into the prestigious Paris Salon. During this period in Paris, the French Impressionists were exhibiting their work at the Georges Petit Galleries and at Durand-Ruel, but it is not known if Vonnoh saw these exhibitions. After two years, he returned to his teaching career in Boston in 1883. Between 1883 and 1886, Vonnoh was quite active in the artistic circles of Boston, He saw the two great shows of European Impressionist art in the United States the "Foreign Exhibition" held at the Mechanics Building in Boston in 1883 and the exhibition of French Impressionist art in New York in 1886, which was organized by the American Art Association and lent by Durand-Ruel. Shortly after his marriage to his first wife Grace D. Farrell he return to live and work in France again between 1887 and 1890.Soon after his arrival in France, Vonnoh settled in the area of GrГЁz-sur-Loing near the Forest of Fontainebleau. He began exploring in earnest this revolutionary technique of impressionism and mastered it quite quickly. His adoption of the impressionist aesthetic has been attributed to the influence of Irish painter Roderic O'Conor, who had immersed himself in impressionism and who may have been in Grez during this period. Between 1887 and 1890, Vonnoh fully adopted the vanguard art of the impressionists, but like most Americans he never went as far as his French counterparts in dissolving forms into pure light and color. Many of the paintings he created during this time were accepted into the Paris Salon, others were sent to Philadelphia for a one-person show at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1889. In 1891, Vonnoh returned to the United States and assumed the position of principal instructor in portrait and landscape painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, which he held through 1894. He also remarried, after his first wife's death, to American sculptor Bessie O. Potter in 1899.During his years in America, between 1891 and 1907 and again from 1912 to 1920, Vonnoh was considered one of the foremost landscape and portrait painters in the country. Around 1905, the Vonnohs discovered the artists' colony at Old Lyme, Connecticut, Vonnoh spent many summers there over the next twenty-five years and exhibited regularly at the Lyme Art Association exhibitions. After 1925 Vonnoh's eyesight began to deteriorate, bringing an end to his highly productive career. He returned to GrГЁz-sur-Loing, France and died of a heart attack in Nice in 1933.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Mar. 20, 2021
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH (1858-1933)
Est: $500 - $1,000
Winter Landscape oil on board 6 x 8 1/2 inches. signed. framed 12 x 15 inches (overall). Note: Verso is a color pallet presumably in the artist's hand Condition: Good , varnish discoloration Temp No 6007
John McInnis Auctioneers
Jan. 28, 2021
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH, American (1858-1933), Landscape in Grez, France, oil on panel, signed on the reverse "Vonnoh", 8 3/8 x 16 inc...
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH American (1858-1933) Landscape in Grez, France oil on panel, signed on the reverse "Vonnoh" 8 3/8 x 16 inches Provenance: Private Collection, Massachusetts. Other Notes: Framed dimensions - 13 1/4 x 21 x 1 inches tags: oil painting, listed artist, France, French, ex-patriot, European
Shannon's
Jan. 28, 2021
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH (New York/Connecticut/France, 1858-1933), Landscape with stone wall, likely New England., Oil on canvas, 11" x 14". Framed 17.25" x 20.25".
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH New York/Connecticut/France, 1858-1933 Landscape with stone wall, likely New England. Signed lower right "Vonnoh". Oil on canvas, 11" x 14". Framed 17.25" x 20.25".
Eldred's
Jan. 03, 2021
Robert Vonnoh (NY,CT,France,1858-1933) pastel painting antique
Est: $1,450 - $1,600
ARTIST: Robert William Vonnoh (New York, Connecticut, French, 1858 - 1933) NAME: European Chateau MEDIUM: pastel on heavy paper CONDITION: Some damages to corners and edges. Some pinholes along edges. SIGHT SIZE: 13 x 20 inches / 33 x 50 cm FRAME SIZE: unframed SIGNATURE: lower right SIMILAR ARTISTS: John Joseph Enneking, Willard Leroy Metcalf, Childe Hassam, Theodore Wendel, Robert Lewis Reid, J Alden Weir, Theodore Robinson, John Henry Twachtman, Louis Ritman, Edward Henry Potthast, Edmund Charles Tarbell, William Merritt Chase, Richard Edward Miller, Edward Willis Redfield, Bessie Onahotema Potter Keyes Vonnoh, Theodore Earl Butler CATEGORY: antique vintage painting AD: ART CONSIGNMENTS WANTED. CONTACT US SKU#: 117208 US Shipping $60 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Robert Vonnoh was one of the first American artists to bring European Impressionism to the United States. A celebrated Impressionist landscape and portrait painter and a gifted and respected teacher, Vonnoh influenced many American artists. His students included William Glackens, Robert Henri and John Sloan, who would later form influential the Ashcan school.Although Vonnoh was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1858, he moved to the Boston area with his German-American parents as a youth and began his artistic studies there. He attended the public schools, trained in a lithography shop, and eventually enrolled in the Massachusetts Normal Art School, where he was a pupil under George H. Bartlett and met Edmund Tarbell. After graduation in 1879, Vonnoh began his long and illustrious teaching career, first at his alma mater, then at the Roxbury Evening Drawing School and the Thayer Academy in South Braintree. He also taught at the East Boston Evening Drawing School, the Cowles Art School, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia.Throughout his career, Vonnoh traveled frequently between America and France. In 1881, Vonnoh made the first of many trips to France. He enrolled in the Academie Julian and was a student under Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre. He frequented the Louvre and had his paintings accepted into the prestigious Paris Salon. During this period in Paris, the French Impressionists were exhibiting their work at the Georges Petit Galleries and at Durand-Ruel, but it is not known if Vonnoh saw these exhibitions. After two years, he returned to his teaching career in Boston in 1883. Between 1883 and 1886, Vonnoh was quite active in the artistic circles of Boston, He saw the two great shows of European Impressionist art in the United States the "Foreign Exhibition" held at the Mechanics Building in Boston in 1883 and the exhibition of French Impressionist art in New York in 1886, which was organized by the American Art Association and lent by Durand-Ruel. Shortly after his marriage to his first wife Grace D. Farrell he return to live and work in France again between 1887 and 1890.Soon after his arrival in France, Vonnoh settled in the area of GrГЁz-sur-Loing near the Forest of Fontainebleau. He began exploring in earnest this revolutionary technique of impressionism and mastered it quite quickly. His adoption of the impressionist aesthetic has been attributed to the influence of Irish painter Roderic O'Conor, who had immersed himself in impressionism and who may have been in Grez during this period. Between 1887 and 1890, Vonnoh fully adopted the vanguard art of the impressionists, but like most Americans he never went as far as his French counterparts in dissolving forms into pure light and color. Many of the paintings he created during this time were accepted into the Paris Salon, others were sent to Philadelphia for a one-person show at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1889. In 1891, Vonnoh returned to the United States and assumed the position of principal instructor in portrait and landscape painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, which he held through 1894. He also remarried, after his first wife's death, to American sculptor Bessie O. Potter in 1899.During his years in America, between 1891 and 1907 and again from 1912 to 1920, Vonnoh was considered one of the foremost landscape and portrait painters in the country. Around 1905, the Vonnohs discovered the artists' colony at Old Lyme, Connecticut, Vonnoh spent many summers there over the next twenty-five years and exhibited regularly at the Lyme Art Association exhibitions. After 1925 Vonnoh's eyesight began to deteriorate, bringing an end to his highly productive career. He returned to GrГЁz-sur-Loing, France and died of a heart attack in Nice in 1933.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Dec. 06, 2020
Robert Vonnoh (American, 1858–1933), , Siesta
Est: $7,000 - $10,000
Robert Vonnoh (American, 1858–1933) Siesta Signed 'Vonnoh' bottom right; also signed on upper stretcher verso, oil on canvas 15 x 18 1/8 in. (38.1 x 46cm) provenance: Private Collection, Pennsylvania.
Freeman's | Hindman
Jul. 01, 2020
Robert William Vonnoh (American, 1858-1933) Haystacks, Lachant, Ile-de-France Oi
Est: $20,000 - $30,000
Robert William Vonnoh (American, 1858-1933) Haystacks, Lachant, Ile-de-France Oil on canvas 30 x 36 inches (76.2 x 91.4 cm) Signed lower left: Robr. Vonnoh NA Signed on the reverse: Vonnoh PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF DAVID L. BALLARD, CROTON FALLS, NEW YORK PROVENANCE: Mr. and Mrs. Max Dreyfus; David L. Ballard, Dreyfus family chauffeur, gift from the above; By descent to the present owner. HID01801242017
Heritage Auctions
Jun. 16, 2020
Robert Vonnoh (American, 1858–1933), , In the Connecticut Hills
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Robert Vonnoh (American, 1858–1933) In the Connecticut Hills Oil on canvas 24 1/4 x 30 1/8 in. (61.6 x 76.5cm) provenance: The Estate of Irene & Richard Gachot, New York.
Freeman's | Hindman
May. 01, 2020
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH | NEW ENGLAND VALLEY
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
Robert William Vonnoh
Sotheby's
Apr. 25, 2020
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH (AMERICAN, 1858-1933) LANDSCAPE PAINTING
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH (AMERICAN, 1858-1933) LANDSCAPE PAINTING, oil on canvas, an impressionistic fall vista, probably New England, depicting a brightly colored tree with valley and mountains in background, signed "Vonnoh" lower left. Outstanding Arts & Crafts period giltwood frame.
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Dec. 11, 2019
Robert Vonnoh (American, 1858-1933) Return from the Garden, 1890
Est: $2,000 - $4,000
Robert Vonnoh (American, 1858-1933) Return from the Garden, 1890 oil on canvas signed Vonnoh and dated (lower right) 28 x 18 inches.
Hindman
Nov. 16, 2019
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH (AMERICAN, 1858-1933) LANDSCAPE PAINTING
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH (AMERICAN, 1858-1933) LANDSCAPE PAINTING, oil on canvas, an impressionistic fall vista, probably New England, depicting a brightly colored tree with valley and mountains in background, signed "Vonnoh" lower left. Outstanding Arts & Crafts period giltwood frame.
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Nov. 01, 2019
Robert William Vonnoh (American, 1858-1933) Portrait of Arthur Joseph Heseltine
Est: $3,000 - $5,000
Robert William Vonnoh (American, 1858-1933) Portrait of Arthur Joseph Heseltine Oil on canvas 36 x 30 inches (91.4 x 76.2 cm) Signed lower left: Vonnoh PROVENANCE: Victor D. Spark, New York; Samuel David, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, acquired from the above, 1970; By descent to the present owner. The sitter depicted in the present portrait is Arthur Joseph Heseltine (1855-1930), an English painter and etcher who lived in the artist colony Bourron-Marlotte in France for much of his life. Robert Vonnoh owned a house in Grèz-sur-Loing, only a short distance away. Both Grèz and Bourron-Marlotte were close to the forest of Fountainebleau and were gathering places for painters, musicians, composers, poets, and dancers. Arthur was the uncle to the well-regarded composer Philip Heseltine (1894 - 1930), who composed and published under the name "Peter Warlock." Philip so inflamed the music critics of the era that he used the pseudonym Peter Warlock to avoid their wrath, and is still best known by this name today. HID01801242017
Heritage Auctions
Oct. 24, 2019
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH, American (1858-1933)-, Afternoon Shadows, Grez, France, oil on panel, unsigned, 10 1/8 x 13 1/4 inches
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH American (1858-1933)- Afternoon Shadows, Grez, France oil on panel, unsigned 10 1/8 x 13 1/4 inches Provenance: Private Collection, Hingham, Massachusetts. Other Notes: A Paris exhibition label is on the reverse.
Shannon's
Oct. 24, 2019
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH, American (1858-1933), Misty Morn, oil on canvas, signed "Vonnoh" lower right, 14 x 18 inches
Est: $4,000 - $6,000
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH American (1858-1933) Misty Morn oil on canvas, signed "Vonnoh" lower right 14 x 18 inches Provenance: Berry Hill Galleries, Inc., New York, New York; Private Collection, New York, New York.
Shannon's
Jun. 09, 2019
ROBERT VONNOH, (AMERICAN 1858–1933), "IN THE CONNECTICUT HILLS"
Est: $2,000 - $3,000
ROBERT VONNOH (american 1858–1933) "IN THE CONNECTICUT HILLS" Oil on canvas 24 1/4 x 30 1/8 in. (61.6 x 76.5cm) provenance: The Estate of Irene & Richard Gachot, New York.
Freeman's | Hindman
May. 02, 2019
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH, American (1858-1933), "Attunement (Pleasant Valley)", oil on canvas, signed lower left "Vonnoh," titled and i...
Est: $8,000 - $12,000
ROBERT WILLIAM VONNOH American (1858-1933) "Attunement (Pleasant Valley)" oil on canvas, signed lower left "Vonnoh," titled and inscribed on stretcher "Lyme, CT" 15 x 18 inches Provenance: Private Collection, Pasadena, California. Other Notes: Tags: oil painting, listed artist, American Impressionist / Impressionism, Old Lyme, Connecticut, Landscape
Shannon's
Apr. 13, 2019
ROBERT VONNOH (D.1933) THE OLD MILL OIL PAINTING
Est: $1,500 - $2,000
Framed oil on canvas board, The Old Mill, signed lower left Vonnoh (Robert Vonnoh, New York, Connecticut, France, 1858-1933), typed label verso reading Robert William Vonnoh with artist's dates and price, on N. Rabinowitz Artists' Materials board, sight: approx 15.75"h, 19.75"w, overall: approx 21.75"h, 25.75"w, 6lbs Start Price: $1,000.00
Austin Auction Gallery
Feb. 05, 2019
ROBERT VONNOH | Edge of the River, Grez
Est: £1,200 - £1,800
oil on panel
Sotheby's
Nov. 14, 2018
Robert W. Vonnoh (1858-1933), Portrait of Richard C. Dale (1853-1904)
Est: $1,500 - $3,000
Robert W. Vonnoh (1858-1933) Portrait of Richard C. Dale (1853-1904) Signed and dated, "Replica Vonnoh 1904," oil on canvas, framed. 36 in. x 28 1/2 in. (sight) PROVENANCE: The Historic Portrait and Sculpture Collection of the Philadelphia Bar Association Presented by Friends, October 4, 1904.
Freeman's | Hindman
Nov. 14, 2018
Robert W. Vonnoh (1858-1933), Portrait of John Christian Bullitt (1824-1902)
Est: $1,000 - $3,000
Robert W. Vonnoh (1858-1933) Portrait of John Christian Bullitt (1824-1902) Signed and dated, "Vonnoh 1902," l.r., oil on canvas, framed. 31 1/2 in. x 26 1/2 in. (sight) PROVENANCE: The Historic Portrait and Sculpture Collection of the Philadelphia Bar Association Presented by Samuel Dickson and Richard C. Dale, October 7, 1902.
Freeman's | Hindman
Nov. 14, 2018
Robert W. Vonnoh (1858-1933), Portrait of Samuel Dickson (1837-1915)
Est: $1,500 - $3,000
Robert W. Vonnoh (1858-1933) Portrait of Samuel Dickson (1837-1915) Signed and dated, "Vonnoh, 1902," l.l., oil on canvas, framed. 36 in. x 29 in. (sight) PROVENANCE: The Historic Portrait and Sculpture Collection of the Philadelphia Bar Association Presented by Hon. John M. Patterson on behalf of the son, Arthur G. Dickson, Esq. June 8, 1915.
Freeman's | Hindman