John Elwood Bundy
John Elwood Bundy (May 1, 1853 – January 17, 1933) was an American Impressionist painter known as the "dean" of the Richmond Group of painters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Bundy was born to a Quaker family in Guilford County, North Carolina, and moved by covered wagon to a farm near Monrovia, Indiana, with his family when he was five. He studied briefly in Indianapolis with Barton S. Hays but was primarily self-taught.
John Elwood Bundy

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- 1853 · Guilford County.
- Died
- 1933 · Cincinnati.
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- painter
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John Elwood Bundy (May 1, 1853 – January 17, 1933) was an American Impressionist painter known as the "dean" of the Richmond Group of painters in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Bundy was born to a Quaker family in Guilford County, North Carolina, and moved by covered wagon to a farm near Monrovia, Indiana, with his family when he was five. He studied briefly in Indianapolis with Barton S. Hays but was primarily self-taught.
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Born at Guilford County in 1853, died in Cincinnati in 1933.
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