About the Artwork
This work belongs to a littleknown group of paintings of nudes by Henri from the mid-teens to the early 1920s. They were posed, for the most part, by professional models and were executed as a means of studying the human body. In paintings such as this, Henri does not attempt to evoke associational values or use the girl’s facial expression to establish rapport with the viewer. She serves instead as a vehicle with which to explore the more abstract qualities of rhythm, color, and volume.
The Young Girl
1915
Robert Cozad Henri
1865 - 1929
American
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Oil on canvas
Unframed: 41 × 33 inches (104.1 × 83.8 cm) Framed: 48 13/16 × 40 11/16 × 2 7/8 inches (124 × 103.3 × 7.3 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
City of Detroit Purchase
19.148
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, lower left: Robert Henri
Provenance
Robert Henri;1919-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Heitkamp, Ernest. "Paintings by Robert Henri." Bulletin of the DIA 1, no. 5 (February 1920): pp. 70-71.
Perlman, Bernard B. Robert Henri: His Life and Art. New York, 1991.
American Beauty: Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2002, pp. 113-114, no. 84 (ill.).
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Robert Cozad Henri, The Young Girl, 1915, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 19.148.
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