Young Woman in Black

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of the Americas

1902

Robert Henri (American, 1865–1929)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: Robert Henri
Title: Young Woman in Black
Place: New York City (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1902
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed recto, bottom-right, on ground, in black paint: "Robert Henri".
Dimensions: 195.6 × 97.8 cm (77 × 38 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Friends of American Art Collection
Reference Number: 1910.317
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Austin E. Howland, “Eighth Annual Exhibition of Paintings at Pittsburg,” Brush and Pencil 13, no. 2 (Nov., 1903): 137-43, 148, 152-53, https://www.jstor.org/stable/25503679.
Carnegie Institute, Catalogue of the Eighth Annual Exhibition at the Carnegie Institute, exh. cat. (Carnegie Institute, 1903), n.p., cat. 72.
Cincinnati Museum, The Tenth Annual Exhibition of American Art, exh. cat. (Cincinnati Museum, 1903), 7, 20, cat. 32, as Portrait.
Pennsylvania Academy of the the Fine Arts, Catalogue of the Seventy-Second Annual Exhibition, exh. cat. (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1903), 17, 98, cat. 88, as , https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t0dv6xx0p.
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, et al., Illustrations of Selected Works in the Various National Sections of the Department of Art, exh. cat. (Saint Louis: Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, 1904), 275–77, cat. 276 (ill.), as Portrait of Young Woman in Black and A Lady in Black.
Municipal Art League of Chicago and the Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of Loan Exhibition of Portraits: The Art Institute and Exhibition Committee of the Municipal Art League of Chicago, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1905), n.p., cat. 53.
James William Pattison, “Robert Henri—Painter,” House Beautiful 20 (Aug., 1906): 19 (ill.).
“Boston,” American Art News 5, no. 13 (Jan. 12, 1907): 2, https://www.jstor.org/stable/25590237.
“Corcoran Gallery Exhibit: Some Notable Works,” American Art News 7, no. 10 (Dec. 19, 1908): 2, https://www.jstor.org/stable/25590389.
Robert Henri, “Progress in Our National Art Must Spring from the Development of Individuality and Freedom of Expression: A Suggestion for a New Art School,” Craftsman 15, no. 4 (Jan., 1909): 395 (ill.).
“Baltimore,” American Art News 8, no. 26 (Apr. 9, 1910): 3, https://www.jstor.org/stable/25590586.
James Frederick Hopkins, Exhibition of the Works of American Artists, exh. cat. (Maryland Institute Gallery, 1910), 41, cat. 54.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Purchases by the Friends of American Art,”, Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 4, no. 4 (Apr., 1911): 55, https://www.jstor.org/stable/4119895.
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Friends of American Art Year Book, 1910-11, 1st ed. (Art Institute of Chicago: 1911), 17 (ill.).
Friends of American Art Year Book, 1911–1912, 2nd ed. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1912), 13 (ill.).
Guy Pène Du Bois, “Robert Henri—Realist and Idealist,” Arts and Decoration 2, no. 6 (Apr., 1912): 213–15, 230 (ill.), https://www.jstor.org/stable/43799957.
Friends of American Art Year Book, 1912–1913, 3rd ed. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), 15 (ill.).
Friends of American Art Year Book, 1913–1914, 4th ed. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), 17 (ill.).
William M. R. French, Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), 153, cat. 513.
Friends of American Art Year Book, 1914–1915, 5th ed. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1915), 20, 87 (ill.).
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Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings: Part 2: Paintings and Drawings, vol. 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), 42, cat. 393.
“Book Reviews: Robert Henri, His Life and Works,” American Art News 20, no. 12 (Dec. 31, 1921): 6, https://www.jstor.org/stable/25589886.
William Yarrow and Louis Bouche, Robert Henri: His Life and Works (Boni and Liveright, 1921), 20, 101 (ill.).
Nathaniel Pousette–Dart, Robert Henri (F.A. Stokes, 1922), cat. 46 (ill.).
R. M. F., “The Walter H. Schulze Memorial Gallery of Paintings,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 19, no. 1 (Jan., 1925): 7–9, https://www.jstor.org/stable/4114117.
Samuel Isham, History of American Painting (Macmillan, 1927), 507 (ill.).
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Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), 127.
Daniel Catton Rich, ed., Catalogue of a Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 1934 exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1934), 67, cat. 455.
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Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 215.
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Bennard B. Perlman, Robert Henri: His Life and Art (Dover Publications, 1991), 57–59, 62, 95 (ill.).
Bennard B. Perlman, Revolutionaries of Realism: The Letters of John Sloan and Robert Henri (Princeton University Press, 1997), 83, cat. 31.
Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 336, fig. 90 (ill.).

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Seventy-Second Annual Exhibition, Jan. 19–Feb. 28, 1903, cat. 88, as Portrait.
Cincinnati Museum, Tenth Annual Exhibition of American Art, May 23–July 6, 1903, cat. 32, as Portrait.
Pittsburg, Carnegie Institute, Eighth Annual Exhibition, Nov. 5, 1903–Jan. 1, 1904, cat. 72.
Saint Louis, The Art Palace, Universal Exposition, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Apr. 30–Dec. 1, 1904, cat. 276, no. 354 (awarded Silver Medal).
Art Institute of Chicago, Municipal Art League of Chicago: Loan Exhibition of Portraits, Jan. 2–22, 1905, cat. 53.
Boston Art Club, Seventy-Fifth Annual Exhibition, Jan. 4– , 1907.
Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery, 1908.
Venice, Italy, Eighth Esposizione internazionale d’arte la Citta di Venezia, Apr. 22–Oct. 31, 1909, cat.
Baltimore, Maryland Institute Gallery, Exhibition of the Works of American Artists, Apr. 4–30, 1910, cat. 54.
Milwaukee Art Institute, An Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to The Art Institute of Chicago by The Friends of American Art, Mar. 1–25, 1925, cat. 20.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Robert Henry Memorial Exhibition, Mar. 9–Apr. 19, 1931; cat. 14; MD, Baltimore Museum of Art, The Robert Henri Memorial Exhibition, May 1931.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 455.
Chicago, Garfield Park Art Galleries, Exhibition of Greek Sculptures and American Paintings lent by the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 5, 1935–Mar. 3, 1936.
MI, Kalamazoo Civic Theater, Dec. 26, 1944–Feb. 1945.
Madison Wisconsin Art Association, Mar. 1956, cat. 276.
Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
FL, Orlando Museum of Art, My People: The Portraits of Robert Henri, Oct. 22, 1994–Jan. 8, 1995; FL, Ft. Lauderdale Museum of Art, Feb. 5–Apr. 2, 1995; GA, Columbus Museum, Apr. 30–June 25, 1995.
Greenwich, CT, Bruce Museum of Art, Painterly Controversy: William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri, Jan. 27–Apr. 29, 2007, cat. 10.

The artist, New York, 1902; sold to the Friends of American Art [Friends of American Art ledger book, Feb. 9, 1911; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1911.

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