Old Spaniard
1924 · Oil on canvas
81.3 × 66.4 cm (32 × 26 1/8 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Robert Henri
American, 1865–1929
Cincinnati, OH, USA
PaintingAshcan School
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None documented
3
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25
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42
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Twentieth Century Portraits
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1942–1943
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Three Centuries of American Art
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1938
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American Painting and Sculpture, 1862�1932
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1932–1933
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Robert Henri was an American painter and influential teacher who championed direct observation and expressive brushwork as the foundation of modern art. Working primarily in oil portraiture and urban scenes, he rejected academic convention in favor of immediacy and psychological intensity. Henri led the Ashcan School movement, a group of early 20th-century realists devoted to depicting everyday American life without sentimentality. His teaching at the Chase School of Art and the Art Students League shaped generations of American painters through his insistence on authentic subject matter and vigorous technique.
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