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Robert Henri
Date: 1896
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1999.70
Text Entries: Robert Henri had already been painting out-of-doors before his first trip abroad. Upon reaching France he increased his output in this mode, creating small painted scenes of Paris and the surrounding suburbs. This painting is representative of Henri's work of this period. One becomes aware not only of the chosen subject but also of the paint and its application as a means of expression. Here, thick layers of pigment convey the forms and figures in a most abbreviated manner. Henri's small works were renowned. As fellow American artist John Sloan once remarked "Some of Henri's greatest work will be found in the landscapes and city streets painted in Paris . . . back in the Nineties and at the turn of the century. . . . He made hundreds of tiny sketches of city scenes, made on the spot . . . not from memory. His city pictures of Paris . . . are not character studies but really a form of impressionism."
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Robert Henri
Date: 1898
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1992.171
Text Entries: Reymond, Nathalie. <i>Un regard américain sur Paris</i> (<i>An American Glance at Paris</i>). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 1997. Text p. 44; ill. p. 42 (color).<br><br> Cartwright, Derrick R. <i>The City and the Country: American Perspectives, 1870–1920</i>. (exh. cat., Musée d'Art Américain Giverny). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 1999. Text p. 24 (checklist).<br><br> Cartwright, Derrick R. <i>Ville et campagne: les artistes américains, 1870–1920</i>. (exh. cat., Musée d'Art Américain Giverny). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 1999. Text p. 24 (checklist).<br><br> Griffith, Bronwyn and Lee A. Vedder. <i>Paris-New York, aller-retour</i> (<i>New York-Paris Round Trip</i>). (exh. cat., Musée d'Art Américain Giverny). Chicago, Illinois: Terra Foundation for the Arts, 2002. Text pp. 18 (French), 86 (English), 106 (checklist); ill. p.8 (color), fig. 3, p. 19 (color).
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Robert Henri
Date: 1907
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1996.61
Text Entries: Kiehl, David W. "Monotypes in America in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries," in <i>The Painterly Print, Monotypes from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century</i>. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, pp. 45-56; and entry on pp. 176–77, no. 65; pp. 178–79.
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Robert Henri
Date: 1913
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1999.69
Text Entries: This ambitious canvas was prepared for the famed International Exhibition of Modern Art of 1913-the Armory Show-where Henri hoped it would serve to illustrate the competence and modernist vision of American artists at the time. Henri begins with the historic subject of the nude human body which he viewed as the most "beautiful and significant of the laws of the universe" but rejects an academic or idealized approach in favor of realism. Through elements such as the bravura brushwork and rendering of gesture, he sought to capture the "constant motion" of human life. Henri's expression of such modern concerns as time and the flux of being, however, proved too subtle and in turn his painting was upstaged at the exhibition by the more avant-garde works of European artists, most notably Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2.
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Robert Henri
Date: 1914
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Art Acquisition Endowment Fund
Object number: 2017.2
Text Entries: <i>Catalogue of a Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Robert Henri</i>, New York, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931. Text p.10, no. 58; ill. no. 58 (black & white).<br><br> Jordan, June. <i>Who Look at Me</i>. New York, New York: T.Y. Crowell & Co., 1969, p. 41, illustrated.<br><br> Perlman, Bennard B. <i>Robert Henri: His Life and Art</i>. New York, New York: Dover Publications, 1991. Text p.115.<br><br> Cartwright, Derrick R. and Valerie Ann Leeds. <i>Robert Henri's California: Realism, Race, and Region, 1914–1925</i>. (exh. cat. Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California). Laguna Beach, California: Laguna Beach Art Museum and Fullerton, California: California State University, 2014. Text pp. 22, 23; ill. p. 22, fig. 19 (black & white); p. 48, no. 7 (black & white).<br><br>Bourguignon, Katherine M., and Peter John Brownlee, eds. <i>Conversations with the Collection: A Terra Foundation Collection Handbook.</i> Chicago: Terra Foundation for American Art, 2018. Text p. 193; ill. p. 193 (color).<br><br> Piccoli, Valéria, Fernanda Pitta, and Taylor Poulin. <i>Pelas ruas: vida moderna e experiências urbanas na arte dos Estados Unidos, 1893-1976</i>. (exh. cat., Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo and Terra Foundation for American Art). São Paulo, Brazil: Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 2022. Pl. p. 63 (color).<br><br>