AMERICAN PORTRAIT
by Fred Stern
"Robert Henri: The Painted Spirit," Oct. 27-Dec. 10, 2005, at Gerald Peters Gallery, 24 East 78th Street, New York, N.Y. 10021
New York’s Gerald Peters Gallery celebrates the portraits of Robert Henri (1865-1929) in its current exhibition, "The Painted Spirit." With more than 35 paintings on two floors of the gallery’s handsome Upper East Side townhouse, the show is a sure draw for figurative painters and other fans of a humanist, painterly realism.
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