Glenn Cooper Henshaw, American (1880-1946), Gloucester

Glenn Cooper Henshaw American (1880-1946) Gloucester Boats - Morning oil on canvas unsigned. Exhibited: Curator's Choice, Highlighting Indiana Art, focus on Henshaw, Indiana State Museum, 2006. From the Archives of AskArt: Glen Cooper Henshaw was born in Windfall, Indiana in 1880. He later moved to the East Coast, living in Baltimore, Maryland and New York City, following study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he was influenced by Impressionism. He exhibited at the Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana; Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; Addison Gallery of American Art, of the Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. In 1941, he moved to Nashville, Indiana, in Brown County, where he purchased the Odd Fellows Building, spending summers there for the five years remaining of his life. Brown County, termed "The Art Colony of the Midwest," was one of six major art colonies in the early 1900s. A painter of portraits and cityscapes prior to 1941, Henshaw continued with these genres in Nashville, also painting some landscapes. After his death in 1946, eighty-five of four hundred oils and pastels were kept as a memorial in the Odd Fellows Building, later moved to the Brown County Art Gallery. A fire destroyed many of Henshaw's paintings at the latter venue, though space at the Brown County Art Gallery today features a collection of work that survived the fire, as well as paintings later added to the collection. Henshaw's records are in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C. Sources: www.browncounty.com www.treadwaygallery.com/ONLINECATALOGS/Sept.2001 www.ipfw.edu/ipfwhist/indiana/sketches.htm 39 1/4" x 44 1/4" (image), 43 1/2" x 48" (frame)