Spanish Sojourns, which is currently on view at the Telfair Museums in Savannah, Georgia, is the first exhibition dedicated to the Spanish paintings of Robert Henri, one of the must influential artists of the early 20th century. A pioneer of the urban realist style that characterized the work of the Ashcan school, Henri was recognized both as a painter and as a teacher.
Between 1900 and 1926, Henri traveled to Spain 7 times and produced a number of works inspired by the country’s people and culture. His portraits depict everyone from dancers and bullfighters to gypsies and old peasants. Many of the works included in Spanish Sojourns are on loan from prominent museum collections including that of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Spanish Sojourns, which was developed over the course of five years, will be on view at the Telfair through March 9, 2014. The exhibition will them travel to the San Diego Museum of Art and the Mississippi Museum of Art.
