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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: (60)
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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...
Art Institute of Chicago: Pioneer of the 'Decisive Moment' Henri Cartier-Bresson Celebrated
From a young age, Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was fully immersed in the active cultural life of Paris. Originally trained as a painter by his uncle and then apprenticed with the artist André Lhote, he was also an avid reader who found his wa...
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...
National Gallery of Art: Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris
“Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris presents a rare opportunity to explore the work of this intriguing artist and to understand how it set the stage for some of the groundbreaking innovations of modernism,” said Earl A. Powell III, director, Nationa...
White Room Gallery: Living Colour: Paintings by John Nolan
John has been inspired by the work of many artists, including Vincent Van Gogh, Howard Hodgkins, Tony O Malley, Albert Irvin, Louis le brocquy, Picasso, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Henri Matisse, the list is endless. His father, who was an artis...
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...
Gallery Vassie: Joyeux de Vie: Exceptional Photographs by Jacques Henri Lartigue
An unfailingly curious amateur, he tried out all available techniques, tirelessly recording fleeting moments and meticulously arranging his several thousand images into large albums, which were to become one of the major achievements of modern pho...
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...
Grand Palais: Salon des Artistes Indépendants - Passion for Life
One of the objectives of the Passion for Life program is to collect funds for the fight against cancer. The program was founded by Antoine Gaber, impressionist artist painter and cancer researcher in drug development mostly for cancer therapies. I...
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...
Addison Gallery of American Art: Parallel Perspectives: Early Twentieth Century American Art
Painting, sculpture, and works on paper by artists such as George Inness, Ralph Blakekock, George Bellows, Patrick Henry Bruce, Arthur B. Davies, Stuart Davis, Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, and Georgia O’Keeffe present the multiple voices of Am...
Kimbell Art Museum: From Renoir to Picasso Masterpieces from the Musée de l'Orangerie
Among the highlights of the exhibition are 16 turn-of-the-century paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and 14 by Renoirs dear friend Paul Cézanne. The three most important painters to emerge in France in the first decade of the 20th century are r...
National Museum of Western Art: Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay 1999 — The Dreams and Realities of the 19th Century
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Queensland Art Gallery: Belle-Ile: Monet, Russell and Matisse in Brittany
In the late nineteenth century these artists were all drawn to Belle-Île, off the coast of Brittany, France, by their desire to capture on canvas the island’s dramatic, storm-tossed coastline...
Carnegie Museum of Art: Visions, Fragments, and Impressions: French Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Bronzes from the Collection of Herbert and Carol Diamond
Beginning with the period of the Revolution (1789) and continuing throughout the nineteenth century, many French artists and sculptors were in the vanguard of political and social change. The public and the press, as well as artists and critics...

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