Timeline

Born in 1903 in New Orleans

Called "Bob" by his friends and family

Educated at a private boarding school, then attended the Parsons Institute of Design in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

Married a Radcliffe graduate, Agnes (Sissy) Grinstead

Worked on regional Works Progress Administration mural projects

Was diagnosed with severe depression and spent three years in and out of hospitals

Eventually left his wife and family and lived by himself in an island cabin in order to paint and draw a multitude of species of island vegetation, animals, birds, and insects

Died at the age of 62 in a New Orleans hospital of lung cancer