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Portrait of Willie Gee
Portrait of Willie Gee

Portrait of Willie Gee

Artist (American, 1865 - 1929)
Date1904
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsFramed: H 39 1/2 x W 33 1/2 in. (H 100.3 x W 85.1 cm)
Image: H 31 1/4 x W 26 1/4 in. (H 79.4 x W 66.7 cm)
Credit LineAnonymous gift, 1925
Object number25.111
On View
On view
Object NamePainting
Title Details
Artist title Portrait of Willie Gee
Remarks recto inscription
Inscriptionsrecto: l.r. brown paint "Robert Henri"; u.l. "Portrait of Willie Gee"Marks and Labels/Stampsback of frame: c.r. printed and typed paper label "MUSEUM / RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN / TITLE Landscape / ARTIST Robert Henri / OWNER Macbeth Gallery / RETURN TO " / PRICE"; backing: u.l. printed gum label " Berry-Hill / Ashcan Kids: Children in the Art of / Henri, Luks, Glackens, Bellows and Sloan / December 2, 1998 - January 16, 1999 / ROBERT HENRI (1865 - 1929) / Willie Gee, 1904 / * Berry Hill Galleries, Inc., 11 East 70th Street / New York, New York 10021"; u.l. printed label "Berry-Hill / ROBERT HENRY (1865-1929) / Willie Gee, 1904 / Oil on canvas / 32 x 26 inches / Signed (lower right): Robert Henri / Z/0122 / *"; u.l. gum label "Loan to / BROOKLYN MUSEUM / from / Newark Mus. / TL67.256"Exhibition HistorySmithsonian National Portrait Gallery's "The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers" 11/3/2017 - 9/3/2018
Ahead of the Curve: The Newark Museum 1909-2015", Winter Antique Show, New York, New York. (January 23 - February 1, 2015)
"Ashcan Kids: Children in the Art of Bellows, Glackens, Henri, Luks and Sloan," Berry-Hill Galleries, New York, New York (December 2, 1998 - January 16, 1999)
"Metropolitan Lives: The Ashcan Artists and their New York, 1897-1917," National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. (November 17, 1995 - March 17, 1996); traveled to: New York Historical Society, New York, New York (May 1 - August 4, 1996)
"Robert Henri Retrospective," Chapellier Gallery (October 15 - November 20, 1976)
Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York (September 1967)
"25th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Painting," Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. and The Toldeo Museum of Art, Ohio (December 1956 - May 1957)
"Take Care," Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York; to Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut (March 11 - April 25, 1954)
"The Child through Four Centuries," Wildenstein's, New York, New York (February 28 - March 28, 1945)
Department of Art, Howard University, Washington, D.C. (March 9 - April 18, 1942)
"Survey of American Painting," Carneigie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (October 24 - December 15, 1940)
"Henri Memorial Exhibition," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York (February 2 - February 24, 1931)
"27th Exhibition," Society of American Artist, New York, New York (March 25 - April 13, 1905)

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