O’Shaughnessy Ventures Backs Painter Documenting Japan in Watercolor
Kendric Tonn receives an O’Shaughnessy Fellowship for Scenes from Japan, a painted travelogue of places most visitors never see GREENWICH, Conn., July 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC (OSV), an investment firm that empowers creators, has awarded an O’Shaughnessy Fellowship to Kendric Tonn, a painter based in Columbus, Ohio. Tonn will use the fellowship to continue Scenes from Japan, a series of watercolor paintings made on location across Japan and collected, alongside firsthand essays, into books. Rather than working from photographs, Tonn paints each subject directly from life, using methods inspired by traditional Japanese art. A regular visitor to […]