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Graceful Female Sitter

Glenn Cooper Henshaw

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Henshaw's painterly handling of pastel is masterful. Its coloration is subtle.

She belongs to an era when one could be content to sit on a chair, deep in thought, without a compulsion to review one's recent email.

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Description	Henshaw's painterly handling of pastel is masterful. Its coloration is subtle. She belongs to an era when one could be content to sit on a chair, deep in thought, without a compulsion to review one's recent email.
About the Artist	(1880-1946) "Henshaw, born in Windfall, Indiana on 8 August 1880 (reportedly as Hinshaw), was a descendant of Francis Scott Key. At the John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis he studied under Otto Stark, J. Ottis Adams and William Forsyth. After a year in Germany with Carl von Marr, Henshaw went to Paris. Although he enrolled in the Académie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Henshaw was attracted to impressionism. In London, he was commissioned to execute portraits and illustrations. Back in America, he established studios in New York and Indianapolis and in 1912 he painted a portrait of James Whitcomb Riley. Henshaw received praise from the art critic Joseph Lewis French in 1914, who admired how the artist strictly followed his own vision. Apparently, the name Henshaw was associated with good taste, for French declared, "To own a 'Henshaw,' even one of the smaller examples, was something that those in the know in New York had long coveted" (French, 1914). In addition, Henshaw was praised in International Studio (Harrington, 1917). He exhibited his works at the Corcoran Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum, and elsewhere. Around 1930, Henshaw moved to Baltimore where he developed an affinity for Edgar Allan Poe: "his paintings tended toward the fantastic as he experimented with hidden images and double faces" (Letsinger-Miller, 1994, p. 172). In 1941, Henshaw, now out of favor with critics who had been swayed by modernism, returned to his Indiana roots, moving to Nashville. Local critics supported his art, which, for them, represented a defense of beauty against the overall threat of the avant-garde. Upon his death, it was decided to make his gallery in the Odd Fellows Building in Nashville into a memorial. Today, the Brown County Art Gallery has a Henshaw Room, dedicated to the preservation of his works that survived a fire in his old studio in 1966. Although Henshaw was by no means an impressionist in the strict sense of the term, his art does show an absence of contours, exuberantly free brushwork, and a love of spontaneous lighting effects, which owe a lot to Monet's original aesthetic. The artist died in Baltimore, on 5 April 1946." taken from AskArt.com
Culture	USA
Style	Post Impressionism
Medium	Pastel on colored paper
Sight size	20" height X 15" width
Frame	Gold finished fillet, three (3) silk-wrapped mat boards, regular glass, gold finished wood molding
Frame size	33" height X 27" width
Signed	"Henshaw" at lower center
Condition	Excellent, as appeared framed, glazed
Provenance	P Lar

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Graceful Female Sitter

Glenn Cooper Henshaw

Savvy Price $2,500.00

Gallery Price $3,500.00