Old Spaniard by Robert Henri
Art Institute of Chicago

Old Spaniard

Robert Henri · 1924

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist (1865–1929), New York [Henri inventory record 84M; copy in curatorial object file]; by descent to his wife, Marjorie Organ Henri (1886–1930), New York; by descent to the Henri estate, New York, 1929; sold through Chapellier Galleries, New York [this and the following according to object record, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery; copy in curatorial object file]. J. Chernis [this and the following according to Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 1971, 55]. With Hirschl & Adler, New York, by 1971; sold to Olga N. Sheldon (born Nielson; also Mrs. A. Bromley Sheldon, 1897–1990), Lexington, NE, 1971 [this and the following according to email from Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Nov. 27, 2023; copy in curatorial object file]; given through her estate to the University of Nebraska Foundation, Lincoln, Dec. 31, 1982; by exchange with Chapellier Galleries, New York, Jan. 1984; sold to John W. Puth (1929–2023) and Betsey Puth (1929–2024; born Leeds Tait), Winnetka, IL, Jan. 22, 1987 [invoice and correspondence from Chapellier Galleries to John W. and Betsey Puth, Dec. 29, 1986, and Jan. 22, 1987; copies in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institution, <em>Twenty–Fifth Annual International Exhibition of Paintings</em>, Oct. 14–Dec. 5, 1926, cat.; traveled to Cleveland Museum of Art, Jan. 4–Feb. 14, 1927; Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 7–Apr. 18, 1927.
  • New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, <em>The Robert Henry Memorial Exhibition</em>, Mar. 9–Apr. 19, 1931; cat.; MD, Baltimore Museum of Art, <em>The Robert Henri Memorial Exhibition</em>, May 1931.
  • Chicago, Main Street Gallery, <em>Robert Henri Retrospective Exhibition</em>, Feb. 22–Mar. 19, 1960, no cat.
  • Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln <em>Robert Henri (1865–1929): Paintings and Drawings in the Collections of the University of Nebraska and the Nebraska Art Association</em>, July 13–Aug. 31, 1971, cat.
  • New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, <em>William M. Chase/Robert Henri: Between Two American Masters</em>, Oct. 25–Nov. 30, 1985.

Literature

Published references

  • <em>Twenty-Fifth Annual International Exhibition of Paintings</em>, exh. cat. (Pittsburg: Carnegie Institute, 1926), cat. 59.
  • <em>Catalogue of a Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Robert Henri</em>, exh. cat. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931), 12, cat. 69 (ill.).
  • R.J. McKinney, <em>Catalogue of a Memorial Exhibition of the Work of Robert Henri</em>, exh. cat. (Baltimore: Baltimore Art Museum, 1931), no. 69.
  • Edward Alden Jewell, “A Memorial and a Reunion,” <em>New York Times</em> (Mar. 15, 1931): 122.
  • <em>The Bulletin of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences</em> 35, no. 15 (Mar. 21, 1931): 268 (ill.).
  • Dorothy Grafly, “Robert Henri” <em>American Magazine of Art</em> 22, no. 6 (June 1931): 441, 444, 446 (ill.).
  • Robert Henri, compiled by Margery Ryerson, <em>The Art Spirit</em> (Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1930), pl. 6.
  • Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, <em>Robert Henri (1865-1929): Paintings and Drawings in the Collections of the University of Nebraska and the Nebraska Art Association</em>, exh. cat. (Lincoln, NE: Nebraska Art Association, 1971), 42-43, 55, cat. 12 (ill.).

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