Robert Henri Helen 1919 oil on canvas Indianapolis Museum of Art |
Robert Henri Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney 1916 oil on canvas Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
Robert Henri West Coast of Ireland 1913 oil on canvas Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York |
Robert Henri The Masquerade Dress 1911 oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Robert Henri Portrait of the painter George Bellows 1911 oil on canvas National Academy of Design, New York |
Robert Henri Lady in Black with Spanish Scarf 1910 oil on canvas M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco |
Robert Henri Portrait of Carl Sprinchorn 1910 oil on canvas Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York |
Robert Henri La Madrileñita 1910 oil on canvas Art Institute of Chicago |
Robert Henri Young Woman in White 1904 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Robert Henri Cumulus Clouds, East River ca. 1902-1903 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC |
Robert Henri Snow in New York 1902 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
Robert Henri Night on Boardwalk 1898 oil on panel Museum of Fine Arts, Houston |
Robert Henri In the Garden of the Luxembourg 1898 oil on panel private collection |
Robert Henri Café by Night with Japanese Lanterns ca. 1895-99 oil on panel Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Robert Henri Café Bleu, St Cloud ca. 1895-99 oil on panel Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Impressionists
These paintings Paris laughed down
A hundred years ago
Have finally attained their salon.
In a house of sheer window
Stitched to a cliff's edge
In crystalline vertigo,
Street scenes from the age
Of the Grand Passion for Light
Hang to great advantage.
In silver frames over white
Wicker, off-white leather
And books of Monet and Cassatt,
Old plazas of rainy weather –
Soft underlit faces
Of shoppers sheltered together
And spaced by the rhythmic oases
Of black umbrellas – provide
Just the right resting places
For folks back from the wide
World that deepens a tan,
Companionably inside
In the quietly dancing sheen
Of sunlight swept to the eaves
By spangled Lake Michigan,
A dappled family runny
With leaves and blinding waves
Of water, light and money.
– Bruce Berger (1988)