Henshaw, Glen Cooper (American, 1884-1946)
Glen Henshaw is known for his landscape, portrait, and urban views and works done in Indiana and Maryland. Henshaw was the first pupil to enroll in the Herron Art Institute, where he studied with J. Ottis Adams. In 1902 he traveled to the Munich Academy, and from there to Paris in 1904. He attended the Academie Julian and the Ecole des Beaux Arts, exhibited at the Salons and taught private lessons. He returned to the United States before World War I and opened a studio in New York. After 20 years he moved to Baltimore and kept a studio there and in Nashville, Indiana. Using all media to capture subjects that appealed to him, Henshaw seldom reworked his pictures. His portraits, done very rapidly and with total concentration, were intensely subjective and yet structurally sound.” Illustrations of his works may also be found in the museum’s new publication (2003), “The Richmond Art Museum; History and Collections” with a forward by William H. Gerdts and History by Kathleen D. Glynn. Source: “Art in Richmond: 1898-1978″, published in 1978 and available through the Richmond Art Museum, Richmond, Indiana.
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