Robert Henri

Robert Henri (; June 24, 1865 – July 12, 1929) was an American painter and teacher.

As a young person man, he studied in Paris, where he identified strongly taking into consideration the Impressionists, and positive to benefit an even more dramatic revolt adjoining American academic art, as reflected by the conservative National Academy of Design. Together once a little team of functioning followers, he pioneered the Ashcan School of American realism, depicting urban vibrancy in an violently brutalist style. By the get older of the Armory Show, America's first large-scale creation to European Modernism (1913), Henri was mindful that his own representational technique was physical made to see dated by further movements such as Cubism, though he was still ready to champion objector painters such as Henri Matisse and Max Weber.

Henri was named as one of the summit three blooming American artists by the Arts Council of New York.