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Robert Vonnoh (1858–1933)
Poppies, 1888
Oil on canvas; 13 x 18 in. (33 x 45.7 cm)
Indianapolis Museum of Art, James E. Roberts Fund
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Vonnoh described Grez-sur-Loing as a village "where it is comfortable and where I can forget myself and the world in my work." At Grez, Vonnoh liberated himself from the academic style he used for portraits. With its spontaneous brushstrokes and sharply contrasting reds and greens, Poppies is among the most radical American Impressionist pictures of the late 1880s. This small painting was intended as a preparatory sketch for Coquelicots (Poppies) (ca. 1890; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio), which was accepted for the Salon of 1891.
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