Party Scene

Robert Henri

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

This quickly rendered ink drawing of a woman in a ball gown surrounded by a group of admirers was perhaps done at Philadelphia’s Chestnut Street Opera House or Academy of Music, where Henri and John Sloan would bring their sketch pads to record the spectacle in brush and ink, in the Japanese style. Henri and his friends enjoyed active social lives, attending such performances as well as carousing at raucous parties in one another’s studios, staging their own amateur theatricals, and meeting for late-night dinners.

Caption

Robert Henri American, 1865–1929. Party Scene, ca. 1890–1900. Black ink on cream, moderately thick, smooth wove paper, Sheet (slightly irregular): 7 7/8 x 8 1/8 in. (20 x 20.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Theodore Leshner, 76.127.3. No known copyright restrictions (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 76.127.3_bw.jpg)

Gallery

Not on view

Collection

American Art

Title

Party Scene

Date

ca. 1890–1900

Medium

Black ink on cream, moderately thick, smooth wove paper

Classification

Drawing

Dimensions

Sheet (slightly irregular): 7 7/8 x 8 1/8 in. (20 x 20.6 cm)

Signatures

Unsigned

Markings

Embossed "R H" in lower left corner and, on verso, stamped "Estate of ROBERT HENRI / Hirschl & Adler / .....NYC....."

Credit Line

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Theodore Leshner

Accession Number

76.127.3

Rights

No known copyright restrictions

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