Historical Artist - Robert Henri (1865 - 1929)
Robert Henri studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and later the Ecole des Beaux
Arts in Paris. He returned to the states in 1886 and taught at the Women’s School of
Design in Philadelphia and then the Art Students’ League in New York. In 1908 he founded
The Eight, an art school in New York, where he taught future American artists his realist ideas
and techniques. He was a leading figure of the Ashcan School in art.
Contemporary American Artists
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