Robert Henri
(1865–1929) amerikansk målare
Robert Henri (USA, 1865–1929) is listed in the catalogue as a painter. By year of birth, Robert Henri belongs to the chapter ‘Post-Impressionism and Symbolism’ in this site’s history of art.
Robert Henri was born in Cincinnati and died in New York City. Robert Henri trained at Académie Julian and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The teachers included Thomas Pollock Anshutz, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, and Thomas Hovenden. Robert Henri worked in Paris, Amsterdam, Haarlem, and Volendam. Wikidata associates Robert Henri with French Realism and Ashcan School. Robert Henri became a member of American Academy of Arts and Letters. The students included Josephine Hopper, A. S. Baylinson, Edward Hopper, and John Sloan.
The best-known works include ‘The Irish Girl’ and ‘The Laughing Boy (Jopie van Slouten)’. The works belong mainly to the genres portrait, figure, and genre painting. The catalogue has 89 works by Robert Henri with free images. The dated works span the years 1893–1926. Works by Robert Henri are held by several collections, among them National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and New Britain Museum of American Art. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Realism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Paul Sawyier, Moina Mathers, Philip Leslie Hale, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, and Maria Slavona.