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Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937)George Hitchcock (1850-1913)Julian Russell Story (1857-1919)Gari Melchers (1860-1932)Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)Robert Henri (1865-1929)Willard Leroy Metcalf (1858-1925)Elaine de Kooning (1918-1989)William Scharf (b. 1927)
Robert Henri sought to return vitality and sincerity to American painting, which was dominated at

"La Madrilenita" (c. 1910-11), oil on canvas, 40 7/8 x 33" 		Robert Henri (1865-1929)

Robert Henri sought to return vitality and sincerity to American painting, which was dominated at the turn of the century by genteel impressionism. He established the Ashcan school of painting, which focused on the gritty reality and ethnic diversity of urban America. His admiration for the vivacious brushstrokes of the seventeenth-century painter Velasquez led him to Spain. Henri described La Madrilenita as embodying "the spirit and dignity of old Spain."

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