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 at the age of five.
He studied briefly in Indianapolis with Barton S. Hays but was primarily self-taught.
Bundy did travel to New York to copy paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a time.
He joined the art department of Earlham College in 1887 and took up painting full-time in 1895 from a studio behind his home on West Main Street in Richmond, Indiana.
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