Portrait of a Man by American 19th Century https://www.nga.gov/artworks/34157-portrait-man
Clarke, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928-1931, unnumbered and unpaginated catalogue
Clarke, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928-1931, unnumbered and unpaginated catalogue
Robert Henri was born Robert Henry Cozad in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 24, 1865, the son of a professional gambler and real estate developer. The family lived in Nebraska and Colorado, but fled east when the father shot and killed a rancher over a land dispute and was indicted for manslaughter.
In 1886 Henri enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1923. 1966 Edouard Manet, 1832-1883, Philadelphia
Clarke, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1928-1931, unnumbered and unpaginated catalogue
Art, Univ. of Penn., Philadelphia; Henry Art Gal., Univ. of Washington, Seattle;
Painted during a period of labor unrest in 1925, The Fire Boss was intended as a life-size personification of a profession rather than a portrait of a specific individual. Despite his downcast, bedraggled appearance, the miner exudes defiance and inner resolve.
He later worked at a drugstore in Pottsville before moving to Philadelphia to study
Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Institute, Pittsburgh, 1931, no. 6 1943 Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, Philadelphia
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Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington