page_title: Robert Henri
section_title: Ireland and Santa Fe
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Henri / Work / Ireland and Santa Fe
caption_attribution_description: English: Mary Agnes painted in Dooagh in 1924 61 x 50.8 cm oil on canvas signed l.c. Rober Henri inscribed on the reverse Mary Agnes
context_page_description: Robert Henri was an American painter and teacher. He was a leading figure of the Ashcan School of American realism and an organizer of the group known as "The Eight," a loose association of artists who protested the restrictive exhibition practices of the powerful, conservative National Academy of Design.
context_section_description: Henri made several trips to Ireland's western coast and rented Corrymore House near Dooagh, a small village on Achill Island, in 1913. Every spring and summer for the following years he would paint the children of Dooagh. Henri's portraits of children, seen today as the most sentimental aspect of his body of work, were popular at the time and sold well.  In 1924, he purchased Corrymore House. During the summers of 1916, 1917 and 1922, Henri went to Santa Fe, New Mexico to paint. He found that locale as inspirational as the countryside of Ireland had been. He became an important figure in the Santa Fe art scene and persuaded the director of the state art museum to adopt an open-door exhibition policy. He also persuaded fellow artists George Bellows, Leon Kroll, John Sloan and Randall Davey to come to Santa Fe. In 1918 he was elected as an associate member of the Taos Society of Artists.
caption: Mary Agnes, one of the children of Dooagh (1924)
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