Robert Henri and the Art Spirit
DVD Price: $24.95 SH included
Additional New Bonus Features
Interview with Helen Sloan,
wife of John Sloan. 28:36
Interview with Ira Glackens,
son of William Glackens. 21:34
Audio recording of Margery Ryerson
on editing The Art Spirit. 17:09
“All any man can do, is add his fragment to the whole. No man can be final, but he can record his progress … What he leaves is so much for others to use as stones to step on, or stones to avoid.”
“After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.”
Robert Henri in The Art Spirit.
Robert Henri and the Art Spirit is a biography of the famous artist and teacher, 1865–1929, who was a leader in the American Independent Art Movement at the turn of the 20th century. Born Robert Henry Cozad, a family scandal involving murder and arson forced him to conceal his past and assume a new identity in his late teens. Henri went on to make his new name synonymous with compelling portraiture and great teaching. The Art Spirit, a book of his lectures and writings published in 1924, is still required reading in many art schools today. Using quotes from the book, paintings and on-location filming in New York, Paris and Ireland, this film tells the story of a man who believed that greatness was within everyone’s grasp if only they would reach far enough within themselves to find it.
This film was shown on public broadcasting stations nationwide in 1991.
By Lori Maass Vidlak and John Spence
29 minutes
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