The Portraits of Robert Henri: Context and Influences
By Valerie Ann Leeds
Notes:
1. Robert Henri, "'My People': By Robert Henri," The Craftsman, 26, no. 5 (February 1915), p. 459.
2. Charles De Kay, "Six Impressionists: Startling Works by Red-Hot American Painters," The New York Times, January 20, 1904.
3. Henri to his mother, September 4, 1898, Henri Papers, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
4. Artist's Record Book, collection of Janet Le Clair. The work was shown at the 1904 Society of American Artists exhibition, the 1904 Universal Exposition in St. Louis (where it won the Silver Medal with Young Woman in Black, Art Institute of Chicago), and at The Art Institute of Chicago in 1905, where it won the Harris Prize. It was also shown in 1906 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts show; there it was one vote short of receiving the Temple Prize.
5. John B.D. Trask, "Art Exhibitions of the Middle West," Book News, (December 1905), p. 211.
6. Henri to his mother, July 9, 1907, Henri Papers, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
7. Henri to his mother, July 28, 1907. Henri Papers, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
8. Bruce St. John, ed., John Sloan's New York Scene, 1906-1913, (New York: Harper & Row, 1965), p. 311.
9. Henri diary, June 7, 1909, p. 159, collection of Janet Le Clair.
10. "Henri's La Jolla Portraits," unidentified Los Angeles newspaper, September 20,1914.
11. Henri to his mother, August 3, 1917, August 11, 1917, and August 19, 1917, Henri Papers, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
12. Henri to his mother, February 15, 1919, Henri Papers, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
13. Henri, "'My People,''' p. 459.
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