ROBERT (COZAD) HENRI American (New York / Pennsylvania) 1865-1929
“SEATED NUDE” Housed in a 22K giltwood custom carved frame with silk liner and gilt fillet, beneath museum glass (shown below)
Provenance: Bearing labels verso from Chapellier Galleries (Henri's gallery during his lifetime), New York; Maynard Walker, New York; and Irvin Brenner Fine Paintings, Pelham, New York Museums (112): most major museums have at least one in the collectionBooks: 387Periodicals: 67 (reports from 2007 and earlier)Condition: No tears, stains or discoloration visible, several small foxmarks; paper with very fine canvas-like texture
Image: 17” x 11.5”
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Note: Robert Henri remains one of America’s most important painters. He was a founder of the New York group of painters - “The Eight” - later known as The Ashcan School. He was a highly influential teacher at New York’s Art Student’s League, as well as several other schools, including the New York School of Art (formerly the Chase School). His merits, museums and literature are far too vast to attempt in a few words. 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.
Most know Henri for his strong portraits, lit usually with classical three-quarter lighting, producing powerful contrasts, enhanced through slashing directional brush strokes and the use of strong color. The equally powerful drawings - as the above - are executed with the same spontaneity, strength and immediacy found in his finished paintings, including, in this instance, 3/4 directional lighting. However, drawings often show the artist actively thinking on paper - the exploration, losing and finding what is important - with a minimum of description. It is akin to the 3-minute speech - sometimes more effective than the full-blown depiction.
(The two areas of cyan in the hip and leg are reflections from the 'museum glass', not color variations or stains).
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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 A, 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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