Artist: Robert Henri (1865 - 1929)
Nationality: American
Movement: Ashcan School
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Robert Henri studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and later the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. He returned to the states in 1886 and taught at the Women’s School of Design in Philadelphia and then the Art Students’ League in New York. In 1908 he founded The Eight, an art school in New York, where he taught future American artists his realist ideas and techniques.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Robert Henri , O in Black with Scarf (Marjorie Organ Henri), 1910
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Robert Henri , Ice Floe, 1902
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John Sloan, Portrait of Robert Henri, 1902
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Robert Kushner, Henri, pl. 18 from the portfolio, The Joy of Ornament, 1980
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Robert Henri , Study of Woman Walking, 19th - 20th century
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Robert Henri , Seated Woman, circa early 20th century
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Robert Nanteuil, Portrait of Henri-Auguste, Comte de Brienne, 1660
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Robert Henri , Three Women Seated, circa early 20th century
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Robert Henri , Sheet of Studies, circa early 20th century
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Robert Henri , Caricature Portrait of John Sloan, circa early 20th century
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Robert Henri - Portrait of Mrs. Robert C. Watts 1926 oil on canvas The Maier Museum of Art American
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Artist: Robert Henri Title: Seated Female Nude Date: 20th century Medium: red ink on paper
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Robert Henri - Himself 1913 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Robert Henri - Tom 1926 oil on canvas The Maier Museum of Art American
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Henri Matisse, Henri de Montherlant, 1937
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Promenade among the Olive Trees, 1906 Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954)Oil on canvas; 17 1/2 x
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Landscape with Stars, ca. 1905-06 Henri-Edmond Cross (French, 1856-1910)Watercolor over pencil on paper; 9 5/8
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Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, recto: In th Park, verso: Untitled, 1913
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Robert Henri - Rocks and Sea 1911 oil on panel Portland Museum of Art American
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Robert Henri - Catharine 1913 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Robert Henri - La Madrilenita n.d. oil on canvas Telfair Museum of Art American
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Robert Cozad Henri - The Beach Hat 1914 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Robert Henri - Pepita 1917 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Robert Henri - Edna 1915 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Henri Bonaventure Monnier, Impression de Voyage: Les Voisins de Campagne, 19th century
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Robert Henri - Tom Cafferty 1924 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Robert Henri - Salome 1909 oil on canvas Mead Art Museum, Amherst College American
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Robert Cozad Henri - The Young Girl 1915 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Robert Henri - Guide to Croaghan 1913 Oil on canvas The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens American
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Robert Henri - Edith Reynolds 1908 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Robert Henri - Laughing Girl c. 1913 oil on canvas Spencer Museum of Art American
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Robert Henri - Snow in New York 1902 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Masquerade Dress, 1911 Robert Henri (American, 1865-1929)Oil on canvas; H. 76-1/2, W. 36-1/4 in.
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Robert Earle Henri, American, 1865-1929 Sidewalk Café about 1899 Oil on canvas 81.6 x 65.72
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Robert Earle Henri, American, 1865-1929 Thammy 1915 Oil on canvas 60.64 x 50.48 cm (23
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Henri-Gabriel Ibels (1867-1936), 1893 Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901)Gouache on paper; 20 1/2 x 15
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Henri Bouchot, La Lithographie by Henri Bouchot (Paris: Alcide Picard & Kaan, 1895), 1895
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Robert Earle Henri, American, 1865-1929 Irish Girl (Mary O"Donnel) 1913 Oil on canvas 61.28 x
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Robert Earle Henri, American, 1865-1929 Gypsy Girl about 1906-12 Oil on canvas 60.96 x 50.48
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Robert Henri - Portrait of Carl Sprinchorn 1910 oil on canvas The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art American

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Kröller-Müller Museum: Hommes de valeur
The world they depict is both real and imaginary, a world inhabited by dreamy fairies and nymphs as well as dark, ominous figures. Also on show are more traditional genres such as landscapes, still lifes and portraits rendered in the realistic vei...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Photographs of Artists
Don't miss this opportunity to come face to face with artists represented in the Gallery's collection such as Henri...
Art Gallery of South Australia: Matisse: The Art of Drawing
Much of Matisse's inspiration was found in poetry. Like his art, the poetry or poetic prose he loved was intimate and sensuous. In his later years the artist developed the practice of reading poetry every morning before he began working in h...
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard: Three Women: Early Portraits by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
We are pleased to organize this focused exhibition of early portraits by Toulouse-Lautrec within the intimate setting of the Fogg Art Museum galleries, said James Cuno, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums....
Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Postimpressionist Masterpieces
Philippe de Montebello, director of the Metropolitan Museum, stated: For six months out of each year, this extraordinary loan signi...
Philbrook Museum of Art: The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse
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Plains Art Museum: Toulouse-Lautrec: Artist from Montmartre
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) was the consummate bohemian artist of Parisian nightlife, creating scenes that would later come to define the era and its famed cabaret, the Moulin Rouge. Considered one of the most innovative artists of the l...
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts: after HISTORY: The Paintings of David Bierk
His compositions frequently address the nostalgia of our age for the traditional painting styles of previous centuries, while demonstrating how these classic styles have coalesced and been transformed to create the pluralism indicative of ou...
Columbia Museum of Art: From Fauvism to Impressionism: Albert Marquet at the Pompidou
Schooled under Gustav Moreau at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs alongside his friend Henri Matisse, Marquet was considered at the forefront of artistic achievement in France in his day. Bonds of friendship associated him with Matisse as well as Raou...
Art Gallery of South Australia: Tete a Tete: Henri Cartier-Bresson
The portraits featured in this exhibition were chosen from many images spanning six decades of Cartier-Bresson's work, 1937-1997. As both artist and journalist Cartier-Bresson met and photographed the world's leading artist's,writers and politici...
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Neo-Impressionism: The Circle of Paul Signac
Flourishing from 1886 to 1906, the artists who worked in this avant-garde style came to be called Neo-Impressionists. The term was coined by art critic Félix F...
Detroit Institute of the Arts: The Power and Passion of Dance: Photographs from the Carol Halsted Collection
The works range from classic ballet to modern dance. Works by more that 30 photographers are featured, including Margaret Bourke-White, Annie Liebowitz, Irving Penn and Henri Cartier-Bresson. ...
Women in Photography: Call for Artists: Decisive Moments - A Tribute to Henri Cartier-Bresson
Cartier-Bresson is well known for his concept of the “decisive moment” in photography. He defined this moment as “the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organization of f...
Columbia Museum of Art: Edward Hopper and Urban Realism
Drawn entirely from the Whitney Museum of American Art’s preeminent collection, this exhibition presents the work of Hopper alongside paintings by his peers – those artists who documented and explored the many faces of life in the changing urban e...
Van Gogh Museum: 800 prints by Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Vuillard and their contemporaries
The Vincent van Gogh Foundation already owns a small collection of prints assembled by Vincent van Gogh and his brother Theo, which is on loan to the Museum. The addition of this extensive collection adds depth and direction to the print collectio...
Brooklyn Museum of Art: Lee Krasner
While Krasner has been indelibly associated with Pollock, this show places her work in a larger context of painterly influences - including Hans Hofmann, Willem de Kooning, Henri Matisse, and Piet Mondrian - and chronicles her approach to pushi...
Columbia Museum of Art: Chronicles The South Through The Eyes Of 63 Photographers
Through the photographers’ eyes it is possible to understand many of the cultural characteristics of the South that contribute to the creation of blues music -- the sense that both joy and sorrow are considered high moments in life. The photograph...
Kunsthaus Bregenz: Jenny Holzer: Truth Before Power
Almost all texts used by Holzer are US government documents – primarily official communications, reports, and letters made available to the public under the landmark legislation, the “Freedom of Information Act.”  Many texts were originally “class...
High Museum: Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection
The High Museum of Art is the only venue for these exhibitions. Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection features approximately 320 masterpieces by renowned photographers, including Berenice Abbott, Richard Avedon, D...
Boston University Art Gallery: Carborundum Printmaking: Henri Goetz and His Legacy
An accomplished printmaker in virtually every technique, he also contributed richly to the advent of new techniques, most notably the Carborundum printmaking process. An engraving technique requiring the use of an abrasive ground to create a gran...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Seeing Things: Photographing Objects 1850-2001
It features many of the greatest practitioners of photography, including Julia Margaret Cameron, Eugene Atget, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Eggleston, Helen Chadwick as well as prominent younger photographers. Natural Things ...
National Gallery of Art: A Century of Drawing: Works on Paper from Degas to LeWitt
Examples by great old masters who created some of their most powerful work after the turn of the century--Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, and Winslow Homer--are shown side by side with works by the younger generation of artists, such as Pablo Picasso,...
Joan Miro Foundation: Woman. Metamorphosis of Modernity
The list of artists comprises Tarsila do Amaral, Gertrude Arndt, Jean Arp/Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Georges Braque, Louise Bourgeois, Marianne Breslauer, Claude Cahun, Imogen Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, Valie Export, Emmanuel Goundouin, Lotte Jacobi, Yv...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Jacques-Henri Lartigue Photographs: Automobiles
Perhaps the most charming image is Dans ma chambre, collection de mes autos de courses (In my room, collection of my racing cars). Made in 1905, it depicts, from floor level, a simulated starting-line of toy metal cars at the f...
Musee d'Orsay: Eugene Jansson (1862-1915)
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Cleveland Museum of Art: Twentieth-Century Works on Paper from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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Cleveland Museum of Art: Last Chance! Twentieth-Century Works on Paper from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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National Gallery of Art: Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s, from the Collections of Virginia and Ira Jackson and the National Gallery of Art
Bonnard's graphic works will be represented in depth, including his magnificent four-panel color-lithographic folding screen, Promenade des Nourrices, Frise des Fiacres (Nursemaids' ...
Multiple Action Research Group: Woman/Goddess
The photographers represented include Radhu Rai, Dayanita singh, Henri Cartier Bresson, Frank Horvat, Ram Rahman, Pablo Bartholomew etc. The exhibition is supported by a catalogue which examines art historical and critical aspects of the issue, wi...
Guggenheim Museum: 1900: Art at the Crossroads
1900 also extends to more conservative figures such as William-Adolphe Bouguereau, born in 1825 but still espoused by academicians at the turn of the century, as well as to the stylistically divergen...

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