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Young Woman in Black
by Robert Henri
Inscriptions
Signed recto, bottom-right, on ground, in black paint: "Robert Henri".
Exhibition history
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Seventy-Second Annual Exhibition, Jan. 19–Feb. 28, 1903, cat. 88, as Portrait. Cincinnati Museum, Tenth Annual Exhibition of American Art, May 23–July 6, 1903, cat. 32, as Portrait. Pittsburg, Carnegie Institute, Eighth Annual Exhibition, Nov. 5, 1903–Jan. 1, 1904, cat. 72. Saint Louis, The Art Palace, Universal Exposition, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Apr. 30–Dec. 1, 1904, cat. 276, no. 354 (awarded Silver Medal). Art Institute of Chicago, Municipal Art League of Chicago: Loan Exhibition of Portraits, Jan. 2–22, 1905, cat. 53. Boston Art Club, Seventy-Fifth Annual Exhibition, Jan. 4– , 1907. Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery, 1908. Venice, Italy, Eighth Esposizione internazionale d’arte la Citta di Venezia, Apr. 22–Oct. 31, 1909, cat. Baltimore, Maryland Institute Gallery, Exhibition of the Works of American Artists, Apr. 4–30, 1910, cat. 54. Milwaukee Art Institute, An Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art, Mar. 1–29, 1925, cat. 20. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Robert Henry Memorial Exhibition, Mar. 9–Apr. 19, 1931; cat. 14; MD, Baltimore Museum of Art, The Robert Henri Memorial Exhibition, May 1931. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 455. Chicago, Garfield Park Art Galleries, Exhibition of Greek Sculptures and American Paintings Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 5, 1935–Mar. 3, 1936, cat. 12. Kalamazoo, MI, Civic Theatre, Paintings from the Friends of American Art Collection, Dec. 27, 1944–Feb. 27, 1945, no cat. (organized by the Kalamazoo Institute of Art). WI, Madison Art Association, Exhibition of Traditional Paintings from the Art Institute, Mar. 1956, no cat. Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available]. FL, Orlando Museum of Art, My People: The Portraits of Robert Henri, Oct. 22, 1994–Jan. 8, 1995; FL, Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art, Feb. 5–Apr. 2, 1995; GA, Columbus Museum, Apr. 30–June 25, 1995. Greenwich, CT, Bruce Museum of Art, Painterly Controversy: William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri, Jan. 27–Apr. 29, 2007, cat. 10.
Publications
Austin E. Howland, "Eighth Annual Exhibition of Paintings at Pittsburg," Brush and Pencil 13, no. 2 (Nov., 1903): 137-43, 148, 152-53, https://www.jstor.org/stable/25503679. Carnegie Institute, Catalogue of the Eighth Annual Exhibition at the Carnegie Institute, exh. cat. (Carnegie Institute, 1903), n.p., cat. 72. Cincinnati Museum, The Tenth Annual Exhibition of American Art, exh. cat. (Cincinnati Museum, 1903), 7, 20, cat. 32, as Portrait. Pennsylvania Academy of the the Fine Arts, Catalogue of the Seventy-Second Annual Exhibition, exh. cat. (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1903), 17, 98, cat. 88, as , https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t0dv6xx0p. Louisiana Purchase Exposition, et al., Illustrations of Selected Works in the Various National Sections of the Department of Art, exh. cat. (Saint Louis: Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, 1904), 275–77, cat. 276 (ill.), as Portrait of Young Woman in Black and A Lady in Black. Municipal Art League of Chicago and the Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Loan Exhibition of Portraits: The Art Institute and Exhibition Committee of the Municipal Art League of Chicago, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1905), n.p., cat. 53. James William Pattison, “Robert Henri—Painter,” House Beautiful 20 (Aug., 1906): 19 (ill.). "Boston," American Art News 5, no. 13 (Jan. 12, 1907): 2, https://www.jstor.org/stable/25590237. "Corcoran Gallery Exhibit: Some Notable Works," American Art News 7, no. 10 (Dec. 19, 1908): 2, https://www.jstor.org/stable/25590389. Robert Henri, “Progress in Our National Art Must Spring from the Development of Individuality and Freedom of Expression: A Suggestion for a New Art School,” Craftsman 15, no. 4 (Jan., 1909): 395 (ill.). "Baltimore," American Art News 8, no. 26 (Apr. 9, 1910): 3, https://www.jstor.org/stable/25590586. James Frederick Hopkins, Exhibition of the Works of American Artists, exh. cat. (Maryland Institute Gallery, 1910), 41, cat. 54. Art Institute of Chicago, "Purchases by the Friends of American Art,", Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 4, no. 4 (Apr., 1911): 55, https://www.jstor.org/stable/4119895. "News Items," Art and Progress 2, no. 8 (June, 1911): 246–47, https://www.jstor.org/stable/20560422. Friends of American Art Year Book, 1910-11, 1st ed. (Art Institute of Chicago: 1911), 17 (ill.). Friends of American Art Year Book, 1911–1912, 2nd ed. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1912), 13 (ill.). Guy Pène Du Bois, “Robert Henri—Realist and Idealist,” Arts and Decoration 2, no. 6 (Apr., 1912): 213–15, 230 (ill.), https://www.jstor.org/stable/43799957. Friends of American Art Year Book, 1912–1913, 3rd ed. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), 15 (ill.). Friends of American Art Year Book, 1913–1914, 4th ed. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), 17 (ill.). William M. R. French, Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings, and Other Objects in the Museum (Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), 153, cat. 513, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t59c9q90w. Friends of American Art Year Book, 1914–1915, 5th ed. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1915), 20, 87 (ill.). "April Exhibitions," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 13, no. 3 (Mar., 1919): 35–36, https://www.jstor.org/stable/4116044. George William Eggers, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings: Part II: Paintings and Drawings, vol. 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), 42, cat. 393, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015036764952. "Book Reviews: Robert Henri, His Life and Works," American Art News 20, no. 12 (Dec. 31, 1921): 6, https://www.jstor.org/stable/25589886. William Yarrow and Louis Bouche, Robert Henri: His Life and Works (Boni and Liveright, 1921), 20, 101 (ill.). Nathaniel Pousette–Dart, Robert Henri (F.A. Stokes, 1922), cat. 46 (ill.). R. M. F., "The Walter H. Schulze Memorial Gallery of Paintings," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 19, no. 1 (Jan. 1925): 7–9, https://www.jstor.org/stable/4114117. Milwaukee Art Institute, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art, exh. cat. (Milwaukee Art Institute, 1925), n.p., cat. 20 (ill.). Samuel Isham, History of American Painting (Macmillan, 1927), 507 (ill.). Rose Henderson, "Robert Henri," The American Magazine of Art 21, no. 1 (Jan., 1930): 3–12 (ill.), https://www.jstor.org/stable/23931581. John Sloan, Catalogue of a Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Robert Henri, exh. cat. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931), 4, cat. 14 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), 127. Daniel Catton Rich, ed., Catalogue of a Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 1934 exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1934), 67, cat. 455. Holger Cahill and Alfred Barr, Art in America in Modern Times (Books for Libraries Press, 1934), 31 (ill.). John Shapley, ed., “Robert Henri—Painter, 1865–1929,” Index of Twentieth Century Artists 2 (Sept. 1935): i. Robert J. Dunham, Exhibition of Greek Sculptures and American Paintings Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Chicago Park District, 1935), n.p., cat. 12. Charles Crehore Cunningham, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 215. Bennard B. Perlman, The Immortal Eight: American Painting from Eakins to the Armory Show, 1870–1913 (New York, Exposition Press, 1962), (ill.). Bennard B. Perlman, Robert Henri: His Life and Art (Dover Publications, 1991), 57–59, 62, 95 (ill.). Bennard B. Perlman, Revolutionaries of Realism: The Letters of John Sloan and Robert Henri (Princeton University Press, 1997), 83, cat. 31. Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 336, fig. 90 (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Robert Henri (American, 1865–1929)
- Date
- 1902
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 195.6 × 97.8 cm (77 × 38 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- Realism
- Place
- New York City
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Friends of American Art Collection
- Accession no.
- 1910.317
Provenance
The artist, New York, 1902; sold to the Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 1910 [Friends of American Art ledger book, Feb. 9, 1911; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1911.
More by Robert Henri in museum collections
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