Robert Henri and the 1915 San Diego Exposition
By Jean Stern
About the author:
At the time of writing of this essay in 1975, Jean Stern was a doctoral candidate at the University of California at Los Angeles with a major in American art and a minor in pre-Hispanic art of Mexico. He was born in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1946. He came to the United States in 1955 and became a naturalized citizen in 1962. He received his undergraduate degree from California State University as Northridge, 1968, and M.A. from California State University at San Diego, 1972. His thesis topic was "Pre-Hispanic Art of West Mexico," He subsequently served as a consultant to the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego and The Jules Berman Pre-Hispanic Art Collection, was later director of the Petersen Galleries in Beverly Hills, CA and is presently Executive Director of the Irvine Museum in Irvine, CA.
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The above essay is reprinted 1/27/05 with permission of the author.and The Irvine Museum. If you have questions or comments regarding the essay please contact the author directly through this phone number:(949) 476-0294 The essay was previously published in American Art Review, September-October 1975 (Volume II, Number 5) 108-117
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Robert Henri: The Early Years; essay by Bennard Perlman (5/10/01)
Robert Henri and His Circle: Selections from the Permanent Collection (1//17/99)
and from the San Diego Historical Society:
Panama-California Exposition ~ San Diego ~ 1915-1916
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Art in California: 1880 to 1930 by Jean Stern
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Impressionist Style in Perspective by Jean Stern
Impressionism in California, 1890-1930 by Jean Stern
The Irvine Museum in Perspective by Jean Stern
Landscape of Light: Impressionism in California by Jean Stern
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"The Outsiders" -- Modernism in California, 1920-1940 by Jean Stern
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Robert Henri and the 1915 San Diego Exposition by Jean Stern
Also see these articles and essays: California Art History, California Artists: 19th-21st Century, California Impressionism and California Regionalism and California School of Painters. Read more articles and essays concerning this institutional source by visiting the sub-index page for the The Irvine Museum in Resource Library
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(above: Robert Henri, Mary Fanton Roberts, 1917, oil on canvas, 32 x 26 inches, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Bequest of Mary Fanton Roberts, 1956. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
(above: George Bellows, Dempsey and Firpo, 1924, oil on canvas, 51 x 63.2 inches, Whitney Museum of American Art. Purchase, with funds from Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
(above: John Sloan, Self-Portrait, Working, 1916, oil with Windsor & Newton Copal Varnish and wax finish on canvas, 22 x 17.9 inches, Hood Museum of Art, Gift of John and Helen Farr Sloan. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
(above: Maurice Prendergast, The Mall, Central Park, 1900/1903, watercolor and graphite on wove paper, 22 x 20 inches, National Gallery of Art (USA). Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
(above: Arthur B. Davies, Sweet Tremulous Leaves, 1922-1923, oil on canvas, 30 3/8 x 18 1/4 inches, National Gallery of Art (USA), Chester Dale Collection. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
(above: William Glackens, Bathers At Play, Study #2, 1914, oil on canvas, 12.25 x 15.5 inches, Sotheby's. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
(above: Ernest Lawson, Spring Night, Harlem River, 1913, oil on canvas mounted on panel, 25 x 30 inches, The Phillips Collection. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
(above: George Benjamin Luks, The Bread Line, c. 1905-25, oil on panel, Dayton Art Institute. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
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