2/1/25 – Acquisitions – Cooperstown (New York State), Fenimore Art Museum –We continue our review of recent acquisitions from the Fenimore Art Museum (see the news item from 9/16/24) with a set of six paintings from the Ashcan School. Five of them appeared in the exhibition that the museum devoted until the end of December to its new enrichments and all, with the exception of the oil on cardboard by Robert Henri, were acquired thanks to the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust. They form the first core of works from this group of realist artists to join the museum which intends to constitute a most representative collection of American art. The artists of the Ashcan School contributed, alongside the American Impressionists, to defining the avant-garde in the United States before the aesthetic shock represented by the Armory Show in 1913.
- 1. Robert Henri (1865-1929)
Betalo, the dancercirca 1909-1910
Oil on canvas – 80 x 64.8 cm
Cooperstown, Fenimore Art Museum
Photo : Richard Walker
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- 2. Robert Henri (1865-1929)
Gloomy weather, rue de Sèvresaround 1899
Oil on cardboard – 15.2 × 12.1 cm
Cooperstown, Fenimore Art Museum
Photo : Richard Walker
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See the image on his page
From Robert Henri, a pioneering figure of the group, two works were acquired in 2024, a portrait purchased from the Adelson Gallery in New York (ill. 1) and an oil on cardboard representing a Parisian street (ill. 2) taken to Bonhams in New York last May for $8,320. Gloomy weather, rue de Sèvres was executed during the artist’s extended stay in the French capital between 1898 and 1900, after his marriage. Although he had left Paris after working at the Académie Julian from 1888 to 1891, Robert Henri kept returning there in the following years from Philadelphia where he had returned to teach, notably at the School of Design for Women in from 1892. From his stay in Paris with his first…
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