Art Institute of Chicago
Herself
Robert Henri (American, 1865–1929)LinkedCulture matchlcp-77759f285017
- Date
- 1913
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Culture
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 13742
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Robert Henri painted Himself (1924.912) and Herself (Irish terms of endearment for a husband and wife) during a summer trip to Ireland; the canvases depict the fisherman Johnnie Cummings and his wife, Biddy. The rich hues and thick, lush paint add depth to the works, while the figures’ elusive expressions and informal poses give them a brusque, forthright quality. Each portrait reveals a distinctive character and, according to Henri, was meant to be a dynamic example of “humanity in the making, in the living.”
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- Credit line
- Walter H. Schulze Memorial Collection
- Provenance
- Macbeth Gallery, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schulze, to 1924; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1924.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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