Lot 2
  • 2

Robert Henri 1865-1929

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Description

  • Robert Henri
  • Sketchers in the Woods
  • signed R. Henri, l.r.
  • pastel on paper
  • 12 1/4 by 19 3/4 in.
  • (31.1 by 50.2 cm)
  • Executed in 1918.

Provenance

Violet Organ (the artist's sister-in-law)
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1954 (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above, 1958

Exhibited

New York, Milch Gallery, Annual Holiday Exhibition of Selected Paintings, December 1918-January 1919, no. 31 (as The Sketchers)
New York, Milch Gallery, 1925
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, November-December 1920
Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, February 1944, no. 5
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Robert Henri: A Commemorative Exhibition, March-April 1954, no. 42
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Robert Henri, 1865-1929, Fifty Paintings, February 1958, no. 38
Brooklyn, New York, The Brooklyn Museum; Andover, Massachusetts, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, American Painting: Selections from the Collection of Daniel and Rita Fraad, June-November 1964, no. 26, p. 34, illustrated
New York, The Gallery of Modern Art, Major 19th and 20th Century Drawings, January-February 1965
New York, New York Cultural Center, Robert Henri: Painter-Teacher-Prophet, October-December 1969, no. 79, p. 107, illustrated
Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum, American Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings from the Collection of Rita and Daniel Fraad, May-July 1985, no. 33, pp. 71-72, illustrated in color



 

Literature

The artist's record book K, no. 179
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Master Drawings and Watercolors: A History of Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, New York, 1976, p. 285, illustrated fig. 245 (as Painter and his Model)
Daniel M. Mendelowitz and Duane A. Wakeham, A Guide to Drawing, Fort Worth, Texas, 1993, illustrated in color on the cover