Sunday, August 8, 2021

American Paintings (Robert Henri)

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)