Born in Pennsylvania, Tod Lindenmuth was a painter known for marine and landscape paintings. His heritage was Pennsylvania Dutch, and his father, Arlington Lindenmuth, was also a painter but made his living running a photography studio.

Tod Lindenmuth studied with Robert Henri and was a member of the Salmagundi Club and the Rockport Art Association. He was also active in Provincetown until 1941, and then retired to Florida in the 1960s, having spent his winters there since the 1930s. He was married to Elizabeth Boardman Warren, also a painter.

His primary media was oil, first on canvas and later in his career on masonite. He often made his own frames. Until the mid 1940s, he also created multi-colored block prints.