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Brown-Eyed Boy

Robert Henri

Brown-Eyed Boy

1925

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Robert Henri

Brown-Eyed Boy

1925

Physical Qualities Oil on canvas, Framed: 30 1/2 × 26 5/8 × 3 1/4 in. (77.5 × 67.6 × 8.3 cm.) Unframed: 23 1/8 × 19 1/4 in. (58.7 × 48.9 cm.)
Credit Line Anonymous Gift
Object Number 1934.55.1
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1934; anonymous donor by purchase, 1934; from the estate of the artist's wife
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Memorial Exhibition of the Works of Robert Henri," March 9-April 19, 1931, no. 75, ill.
BMA, "Robert Henri Memorial Exhibition," May 1931, no. 46, ill.
BMA, "A Survey of American Painting," January 10-February 28, 1934, no. 18 (as Estate of Mrs. Robert Henri).
BMA, "Two Hundred Years of American Painting," January 15-February 28, 1928, no. 19.
BMA, "Behold the Child," November 7-December 3, 1950.
The Gallery of Modern Art, NY, "Robert Henri. Painter-Teacher-Prophet," October 14-December 14, 1969, no. 105.
BMA, "American Art 1900-1930: Painting and Works on Paper from the Museum Collection," September 2-October 29, 1978.
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, "Robert Henri, Painter," May 4-June 24, 1984, no. 98, ill; circulation to Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington.
David Curry & Ann Shafer, BMA, "American Realism: Ashcan Artists," January 9-April 6, 2008.
The Mint Museum, "From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland," May 7 - August 11, 2011. Circulating to The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, September 23 2011 - January 15 2012; The Hyde Collection, February 5 through May 2012.
Bennard B. Perlman, ed., "Revolutionaries of Realism, The Letters of John Sloan and Robert Henri," Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997, no. 111, p. 319, ill.
Jonathan Stuhlman and Valerie Ann Leads, "From New York to Corrymore: Robert Henri and Ireland," Charlotte: The Mint Museum of Art, 2011, pl. 29.

Inscribed: Face: lower right, "ROBERT HENRI"

Artist

Robert Henri

1864–1928

American, 1865-1929
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