Lot 14
  • 14

Robert Henri 1865-1929

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Description

  • Robert Henri
  • Sylvester-Smiling
  • signed Robert Henri, l.r.; also titled, signed and dated "Sylvester"/Robert Henri/San Diego 1914 on the reverse
  • oil on canvas
  • 24 by 20 in.
  • (61 by 50.8 cm)

Provenance

Estate of the artist
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1954 (acquired from the above)
Acquired from the above, 1961

Exhibited

Los Angeles, California, Museum of History, Science and Art, Paintings by Robert Henri, September 1914, no. 7 (as Sylvester)
New York, Macbeth Gallery, Henri Exhibition, November 1914
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 110th Annual Exhibition, February-March 1915, no. 414, p. 48 (as Sylvester)
Buffalo, New York, Albright Art Gallery; St. Louis, Missouri, City Art Museum, 10th Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, May-September 1915, nos. 76 and 78, 14, 35, respectively (as Sylvester)
Fort Worth, Texas, Fort Worth Museum of Art; Austin, Texas, Austin Art League; San Antonio, Texas, San Antonio Art League; Galveston, Texas, Galveston Art League; Nashville, Tennessee, The Parthenon; Bedford, Massachusetts, Bedford and Brockton Public Library, Seventh Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings, January 1916- 1917, no. 27 (as Sylvester)
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Robert Henri: A Commemorative Exhibition, March-April 1954, no. 37
Manchester, Vermont, Southern Vermont Art Center, "The Eight," Fifty-Five Years Later, June-July 1963, no. 3
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. 27, p. 35, illustrated 
Fort Worth, Texas, Amon Carter Museum, American Paintings, Watercolors, and Drawings from the Collection of Rita and Daniel Fraad, May-July 1985, no. 32, pp.68-70, illustrated in color
New York, Berry-Hill Galleries, Ashcan Kids: Children in the Art of Henri, Luks, Glackens, Bellows and Sloan, December 1998-January 1999
Youngstown, Ohio, The Butler Institute of American Art, Visions of America: Urban Realism 1900-1945, January-August 1996

Literature

The artist's record book I, no. 184
William Innes Homer, Robert Henri and His Circle, Ithaca, New York, 1969, p. 254
Susan Duffy Schaffrath and Lee Sternberg, McDougal, Littell Literature, Orange Level, Evanston, Illinois, 1987, illustrated in color p. 101