Word: henrys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Robert Henri, 64, of Manhattan, artist (La Neige, Spanish Gypsy, Willie Gee, Dutch Joe), teacher of Artists George Bellows and Rockwell Kent; in Manhattan...
...must to all men, Death came last week to Robert Henri (pronounced Hen-Rye), 64, outstanding U. S. artist, sick since last autumn in St. Luke's Hospital, Manhattan...
...Robert Henri was not an elegant, sensational painter like the late John Singer Sargent, nor a trenchant controversialist like the late Joseph Pennell. Insurgent, he did not crusade. He taught instead. Born in Cincinnati of French-English-Irish descent, he studied at the Pennsylvania and Julien (Paris) Academies, at the Paris Beaux-Arts. French precision and orthodoxy never made him feel com fortable. Strolling the corridors of the Louvre, he revered Rembrandt, Velasquez, Hals, but was long unable to evolve con victions of his own. Like most fine artists, he remained, even after success, a student of the masters...
...General Henri Joseph Etienne Gouraud, Military Governor of Paris, long of beard, lame of leg, empty of right sleeve, arrived in the U. S. for the first time since 1923 to attend, in Baltimore, the annual convention of the Rainbow (42nd) Division which was under his command when he broke the German offensive in the crucial Battle of Champagne (July 1918). Historians recalled that both General Gouraud's legs and one arm were riddled in Gallipoli. Surgeons said the arm would heal in three months. The General asked how soon he could return to the front if the arm were...
British Men's Singles-won by Henri Cochet, France; at Wimbledon...