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HENRI, Robert (1865-1929)

Birth place: Cincinnati, Ohio

Death place: Cincinnati, Ohio

Addresses: Philadelphia, 1891-99 / Paris, France; NYC, c1901

Profession: Painter

Studied: pupil of Eakins & Hovenden at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1886-88; Academy Julian, Paris, with

Bouguereau, Robert-Fleury, 1888-91; Ecole des Beaux-Arts; Spain; Italy.

Exhibited: National Academy of Design, 1878; at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1892-1929 (gold, 1914, 1929);

Salons of the Société Nationale des Beaux Arts, Paris, 1896, 1897, 1899; Pan-Am. Exposition, Buffalo, 1901 (medal);

St. Louis Exposition, 1904 (medal); Art Institute of Chicago, 1905 (prize); Boston Arts Club, 1907, 1908; Corcoran Gallery,

1907-28; Arts Club Philadelphia 1909 (gold); Buenos Aires Exposition, 1910 (medal); Armory Show, 1913; Pan.-Pacific

Exposition,  San Francisco, 1915 (medal); Society Independent Artists, 1919-29; Wilmington Society Fine Arts, 1920 (prize);

"The Ashcan Artists and their New York," National Museum American Art, 1995

Member: Society of American Artists, 1903; Associate member of the National Academy of Design, 1904; National Academy,

1906; National Institute of Arts and Letters; Portrait Painters; National Arts Club; American Painters & Sculptors; Taos

Society Artists; Los Angeles Modern Art Society; Society Independent Artists; Boston Arts Club; New Society Artists;

Woodstock Art Association

Work: Luxembourg Gallery, Paris; Art Institute of Chicago; Carnegie Institute; Gallery Spartanburg, SC; Dallas Art Association;

Columbus Gallery Fine Art; New Orleans Art Association; Brooklyn Institute Museum; at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts;

Carolina Art Association; Kansas City Art Institute; San Francisco Institute Art; Metropolitan Museum Art;

National Arts Club; Minneapolis Institute Art; Buffalo Fine Art Academy; Oberlin College Gallery; Santa Fe Museum Art &

Architecture; Memphis Museum; Cincinnati Museum; Detroit Institute; Toledo Museum Art; Milwaukee Art Institute;

Telfair Academy; Corcoran Gallery Art; City Art Museum of St. Louis; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Wilmington

Society Fine Art; Butler Art Institute; Newark Museum; Decatur Art Institute; Canajoharie Art Gallery; Rochester Museum;

Montclair Art Museum; San Diego Museum; Des Moines Art Academy.

Comments: The outspoken leader of The Eight," later called the "Ashcan Group" who were largely responsible for creating

the famous Armory Show of 1913. He was a highly influential teacher at Art Student’s League; Valtin School; Ferrar School;

New York School of Art (previously known as the Chase School); and his own Henri School, all in NYC. His collection of

lectures, published as The Art Spirit (1923) greatly influenced the course of American art because he encouraged many students

towards independence and personal expression, urging them, in particular, to pay close attention to their feelings and reactions to

subject matter and to translate these directly into their paintings. As a teacher he also stressed self-reliance and self-respect.

In his paintings Henri employed a slashing, quick attack to record feeling and sensation. His portraits were

of young women, children, and foreigners. He painted Indian portraits in San Diego in 1913 and spent the summer of 1916 in

Santa Fe, painting, followed there by friends and students.

Sources :

Who's Who, 1927; William Innes Homer, Robert Henri & His Circle (1969); Mecklenburg, Zurier, and Snyder, Metropolitan Lives: the Ashcan

Artists and their New York; Bennard B. Perlman, The Immortal Eight: American Painting from Eakins to the Armory Show, 1870-1913

(New York, 1962); Baigell, Dictionary; Peggy and Harold Samuels, 219-220; Eldredge, et al., Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945, 198; Fink,

American Art at the Nineteenth-Century Paris Salons, 355; Woodstock Art Association; Falk, Exhibition Record Series; Curtis, Curtis,

and Lieberman, 183."

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