Born in Canandaigua, New York in 1869, Frank Townsend Hutchens studied at the Art Students League in New York and at the Academie Julien and the Academie Colarossi in Paris, where he absorbed the painterly techniques of the Impressionists. Known as a plein air painter of portraits, landscapes and figures, he exhibited widely in prestigious destinations such as the Paris Salon, the Royal Academy in London, the Corcoran Gallery and the National Academy of Design. Hutchens maintained homes in Norwalk, Connecticut, where he was associated with the Silvermine Art Colony, and in Taos, New Mexico where he encountered fellow artists drawn to the light and atmospheric possibilities of the landscape. Hutchens work is held in numerous collections, including the Butler Institute of American Art, the High Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art.