Old Spaniard

1924

Robert Henri (American, 1865–1929)

Status: On View, Gallery 272
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Robert Henri
Title: Old Spaniard
Places: United States (Artist's nationality:), Madrid (Object made in)
Date: 1924
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed recto, bottom-left corner, in black pigment: "Robert Henri".
Dimensions: 81.3 × 66.4 cm (32 × 26 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Betsey Leeds Puth
Reference Number: 2023.3007

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

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

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, NE, 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.

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