A Realist-Impressionist painter of animals in acrylic on masonite, Bob Kuhn was born in Buffalo, New York in 1920 and lived in Roxbury, Connecticut. He was intrigued since boyhood by the animal kingdom. His earliest contacts with large mammals were made at the Buffalo Zoo.

After completing public high school in Buffalo, Kuhn studied commercial art for three years at the Pratt Institute. He worked steadily as an illustrator from 1940 to 1970, taking only a year and a half off to serve as a merchant seaman in World War II.

Bob Kuhn passed away in 2007.