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Robert Henri Biography

American Ashcan School painter
born 1865 - died 1929

Student of: Thomas Pollock Anschutz (1851-1912).
Teacher of: George Wesley Bellows (1882-1925), Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Rockwell Kent (1882-1971).

Robert Henri was born Robert Henry Cozad in Cincinnati, in 1865, the son of a professional gambler and businessman. In 1881 Robert Henri accompanied his family to Denver. When his father was indicted for manslaughter a year later the Cozads changed their name and fled to Atlantic City, New Jersey. In 1886 Robert Henri artist enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art, where he studied under Thomas Anshutz, Thomas Hovenden, and James B. Kelly.

Robert Henri made regular trips to Paris where he was particularly influenced by Edouard Manet, Frans Hals, and Diego Velázquez. In 1899, one year after his marriage to Linda Craige, one of Robert Henri paintings was purchased for the Musée National du Luxembourg.

In 1900 Henri settled in New York and taught at the New York School of Art from 1902 to 1908. Robert Henri painter gradually began to reject the genteel traditions of academic Robert Henri painting and impressionism, and turned his attention to urban realist subjects executed in a bold, painterly style. In 1906 he was elected to the National Academy of Design, and that summer Robert Henri artist taught in Spain. When the academy refused to exhibit Robert Henri paintings by in its 1907 annual show, he resolved to organize an independent exhibition.

In 1898 Henri married and went to Paris for his honeymoon. His compositions from this trip were a series of broadly painted figures that stood in contrast to simple silhouettes, and scenes in which shadow and light figured prominently. While these Robert Henri paintings were rejected by the progressive Salon des Indépendants, the French government purchased one of them, Snow in 1899.

His friends’ excitement at finally having one of their own officiate such an exhibit was soon crushed when he discovered that Robert Henri artist had no meaningful say in the evaluation process. The jury gave two of own Robert Henri paintings a number two rating, meaning they were not to be hung on eye level, but either above or below. He was furious and quickly withdrew his canvases from the show.

Robert Henri painter and his students took to wandering the streets looking for subjects and turned their sights on the city’s new immigrants. They filled their canvases with scenes of Coney Island, Union Square, and the Bowery. Robert Henri painted the rivers in and around New York City and painted them in bleakest winter. For Henri, the New York skyline, with its looming buildings and steel bridges, symbolized the energy of the city. Others labeled the creators of these Robert Henri paintings the Ash Can School for their gritty imagery.

Later Life

In his later years Robert Henri artist continued to teach and to rebel against the boundaries between official and nonofficial art. Robert Henri wrote a book, The Art Spirit in 1923. The painter continued to inspire students by demanding innovation in subject matter. Henri died in New York City on July 12, 1929.