Where the Trees are Dying
Robert Henri, American, 1865 - 1929
1918
Pastel on heavy wove paper
Sheet (Irreg.): 12 7/16 × 19 7/8 in. (31.6 × 50.5 cm)
Frame: 21 × 28 3/8 in. (53.3 × 72.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Russell and Jack Huber, Class of 1963
D.2004.39
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in ink, on original frame backing: Robert Henri / "Where the trees are dying" 159 / K; inscribed, (in artist's hand?) in brown ink on reverse: 159 / K / Robert Henri| Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts label on original frame backing: THE PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS / AND THE PHILADELPHIA WATERCOLOR CLUB / EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL / PHILADELPHIA WATERCOLOR EXHIBITION, 1920 / TITLE: Where the Trees are dying [underscored, title in artist's hand] / [stamped] Robert Henri / 10 Gramercy Park / New York City
Course History
ARTH 17, The Power of Place: Urban and Rural Images in American Art, 1900-1945, Sarah Powers, Winter 2014
Exhibition History
American Works on Paper to 1950: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-December 9, 2007.
Carl Smalley [Art Dealer], Kansas City, Missouri, 1921. [also had gallery in McPherson, Kansas]
Celebrating Twenty Years: Gifts in Honor of the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-December 12, 2005.
Embracing Elegance, 1885-1920, American Art from the Huber Family Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 11-September 4, 2011.
Montross Gallery, New York, New York, 1918.
The Eighteenth Annual Philadelphia Water Color Exhibition, and Nineteenth Annual Exhibition of Minatures, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 7-December 12, 1920, no. 465.
Publication History
Katherine W. Hart et al., Celebrating Twenty Years: Gifts in Honor of the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2005, pp. 58, ill. p. 59, cat. no. 20.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, ill. p. 237.
R. Henri, Artist's Notebook K, no. 159 as Where the Trees are Dieing (sic)
Barbara J. MacAdam, American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Muesum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2007, p. 142, no. 114.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Embracing Elegance, 1885-1920, American Art from the Huber Family Collection, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2011, no. 18, p. 66-67, ill.
Provenance
Paul Magriel, New York; Estate of Claire Loring Smith, Johnstown, Pennsylvania; Royal York Auction, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; sold to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Huber, Atlanta, Georgia, 1992; given to present collection, 2004.
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