His mission to portray the universal beauty of human dignity, the subject of his essay, "My People," is reflected in the diverse range of children he painted portraits of in his later years, ranging from the Asian Tam Gan, to the black Sylvester Smiling and Eva Green, to The Irish Boy in Blue Denim.
His mission to portray the universal beauty of human dignity, the subject of his essay, "My People," is reflected in the diverse range of children he painted portraits of in his later years, ranging from the Asian Tam Gan, to the black Sylvester Smiling and Eva Green, to The Irish Boy in Blue Denim. The bulk of his other paintings consisted of landscapes of New England retreats like Mohegan Island, Maine, and of city scenes, like Snow in New York. Marge Ryerson compiled his notes posthumously in The Art Spirit, and his fame rests as a teacher, leading a group of students in a 1908 exhibition at the Macbeth Gallery after the traditionalism of the National Academy prompted it to reject many submissions by him and his numbered group of followers, including Maurice Prendergast, Everett Shinn, and William Glackens. FTP, name this painter who served as leader of The Eight, and later the Ashcan School.
His mission to portray the universal beauty of human dignity, the subject of his essay, "My People," is reflected in the diverse range of children he painted portraits of in his later years, ranging from the Asian Tam Gan, to the black Sylvester Smiling and Eva Green, to The Irish Boy in Blue Denim.
Robert {Henri} or Robert Henry {Cozad}