Born in Pennsgrove, New Jersey and raised in Chicago by German immigrant parents, Ernest Hennings became a highly recognized painter of western subjects, particularly of Indians of New Mexico where... Read full biography
Born in Pennsgrove, New Jersey and raised in Chicago by German immigrant parents, Ernest Hennings became a highly recognized painter of western subjects, particularly of Indians of New Mexico where he joined The Taos Society of Artists. Of his painting, it was written: "He was most successful in... Read full biography
Born in Pennsgrove, New Jersey and raised in Chicago by German immigrant parents, Ernest Hennings became a highly recognized painter of western subjects, particularly of Indians of New Mexico where he joined The Taos Society of Artists. Of his painting, it was written: "He was most successful in unifying the human figure with a sunshine-filled, happy, natural setting." (Zellman 808). The last project of the artist before his death in 1956, was a series of paintings at the Navajo Reservation in... Read full biography
Born in Pennsgrove, New Jersey and raised in Chicago by German immigrant parents, Ernest Hennings became a highly recognized painter of western subjects, particularly of Indians of New Mexico where he joined The Taos Society of Artists. Of his painting, it was written: "He was most successful in unifying the human figure with a sunshine-filled, happy, natural setting." (Zellman 808). The last project of the artist before his death in 1956, was a series of paintings at the Navajo Reservation in Ganado for a Santa Fe Railroad calendar. When he was young, his family moved to Chicago, and for five years, he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago from which he graduated with honors. After working six years as a commercial artist, he enrolled... Read full biography
Born in Pennsgrove, New Jersey and raised in Chicago by German immigrant parents, Ernest Hennings became a highly recognized painter of western subjects, particularly of Indians of New Mexico where he joined The Taos Society of Artists. Of his painting, it was written: "He was most successful in unifying the human figure with a sunshine-filled, happy, natural setting." (Zellman 808). The last project of the artist before his death in 1956, was a series of paintings at the Navajo Reservation in Ganado for a Santa Fe Railroad calendar. When he was young, his family moved to Chicago, and for five years, he studied at the Art Institute of Chicago from which he graduated with honors. After working six years as a commercial artist, he enrolled in 1912 at the Munich Academy in Germany where he learned to paint in the style of academic realism. Walter Thor, a portrait artist... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (91)
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The American West Reimagined: Gems from the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction
2021
Peterson, Dr. Larry Len
528 pages (color)
Wildlife in American Art: Masterworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art
2009
Harris, Adam Duncan
262 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Serenading the Light: Painters of the Desert Southwest (Collection of Billy Schenck)
2003
Clemmer, David
120 pages (color)
Recounting the Old West II: Important Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper
2003
Tierney, Curtis (editor)
71 pages (color)
Phoenix Art Museum Collection Highlights
2002
Komanecky, Michael K. (editor)
352 pages (color)
Texas Painters, Sculptors & Graphic Artists A Biographical Dictionary of Artists in Texas Before 1942
2000
Powers, John & Deborah; Ron Tyler, Foreward
606 pages
Recounting the Old West: Gallery Selections-Thomas Nygard Gallery
2000
Tierney, Curtis (Editor)
44 pages (color)
Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection
2000
Troccoli, Joan Carpenter
218 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Taos Artists and Their Patrons, 1898-1950
1999
Porter, Dean; Teresa Ebie
400 pages (color)
Texas Art and a Wildcatter's Dream
1998
Reaves, William E Jr
92 pages (color)
The Taos Society of Artists
1998
Robert R. White, Editor
126 pages
Harwood Museum: Collection Handbook
1997
Ellis, Robert M. (Director)
48 pages (color)
Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art
1997
Southwest Art
128 pages
American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists
1996
Shipp, Steve
159 pages
Treasures on New Mexico Trails Discover New Deal Art and Architecture
1995
Flynn, Kathryn A
320 pages (color)
Paintings of the Southwest
1994
Skolnick, Arnold/Suzan Campbell
128 pages
Santa Fe Art
1993
Ellis, Simone
112 pages (color)
The Red Book Western American Price Index
1993
Southwest Art
126 pages
Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
1993
Southwest Art
64 pages
Hidden Treasures American Paintings from Florida Colllections (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Leeds, Valerie Ann
72 pages (color)
Artists of 20th Century New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Collection
1992
Museum of Fine Arts
167 pages (color)
The American West: John F. Eulich Collection Legendary Artists of the Frontier (Exhibition catalog)
1992
Stewart, Dr. Rick; Don Hedgpeth
56 pages (color)
Printmaking in New Mexico 1880-1990
1991
Adams, Clinton
167 pages (color)
West West West Major Paintings from the Anschutz Collection
1991
Cunningham, Elizabeth
131 pages (color)
Visions & Visionaries Art and Artists of the Santa Fe Railway
1991
D'Emilio, Sandra; Suzan Campbell
147 pages (color)
Engendering Culture Manhood & Womanhood in New Deal Public Art & Theater
1991
Melosh, Barbara
297 pages (color)
E Martin Hennings, Paintings and Works on Paper from Europe and Taos (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Peters, Gerald
0 pages (color)
E Martin Hennings Paintings & Works on Paper from Europe & Taos (Exhibition catalog)
1991
White, Robert R
78 pages (color)
Art of the Golden West
1990
Axelrod, Alan
418 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: The Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Depression Post Office Murals and Southern Culture/A Gentle Reconstruction
1989
Beckham, Sue Bidwell
338 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
American Western Art
1989
Rockwell Museum
84 pages (color)
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Transformations 1885-1945 (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Preato, Robert R.; Dr. Sandra L. Langer
104 pages (color)
History of Western American Art
1987
Hassrick, Royal B
192 pages (color)
The Lure of the West The Carl S Dentzel Collection of W American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Sweeney, J Gray/J Ballinger
40 pages (color)
Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945 Paths to Taos and Santa Fe
1986
Eldredge, Charles/J Schimmel
218 pages (color)
Color, Pattern, and Plane E Martin Hennings in Taos
1986
Heltunen, Vicki L
0 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary
1985
Dawdy, Doris
1,184 pages
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
Masterworks of the Taos Founders (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Gerald Peters Collection
84 pages (color)
Treasures of the Old West Thomas Gilcrease Institute
1984
Hassrick, Peter H
127 pages (color)
Four Centuries of Sporting Art
1984
Schmitt, Victoria Sandwick
165 pages
The Taos Artists A Historical and Biographical Dictionary
1984
Witt, David L
63 pages
Pioneer Artists of Taos Revised, Expanded
1983
Bickerstaff, Laura
227 pages
Masterpieces of the American West Selections from the Anschutz Collection
1983
Cunningham, Elizabeth
152 pages (color)
Frontier Spirit: William Foxley Collection Museum of Western Art
1983
Foxley, William
200 pages (color)
The Gerald Peters Collection A Selection of Paintings
1983
Peters, Gerald
96 pages (color)
The Taos Society of Artists
1983
White, Robert R
126 pages
A Western American Vision of Art, History and Work Francis King Collection
1982
Dobbs, Joanne; Jerry A. Schefcik
52 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Santa Fe and Taos 1898-1942 An American Cultural Center
1982
Reeve, Kay Aiken
56 pages
The West as Art Western Art in Calfornia Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Trenton, Patricia
197 pages (color)
Painters of the American West Selections from the Anschutz Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1981
Anschutz Collection
150 pages (color)
Treasures of the American West Harrison Eiteljorg Collection
1981
Eiteljorg, Harrison
172 pages (color)
Light & Color Images from New Mexico
1981
Museum of Fine Arts
94 pages (color)
The New Deal in the Southwest: Arizona and New Mexico (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Bermingham, Peter
67 pages
Taos: A Painter's Dream
1980
Broder, Patricia Janis
321 pages (color)
The Legendary Artists of Taos
1980
Nelson, Mary Carroll
176 pages (color)
Painters in Taos Formative Years (Eiteljorg Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Phoenix Art Museum
60 pages (color)
American Art of the Taos School
1978
Peters, Gerald P
480 pages (color)
Stark Museum of Art: The Western Collection
1978
Schimmel, Julie; Gilbert Tapley Vincent
244 pages (color)
The Way West Art of Frontier America
1977
Hassrick, Peter H
240 pages (color)
Paintings from the McKee Foundation (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Phoenix Art Museum
36 pages (color)
The Illustrated Biographical Encyclopedia of Artists of the American West
1976
Samuels, Peggy and Harold
549 pages
Representative Art and Artists of New Mexico (Exhibition catalog)
1976
School of American Research
41 pages
Art of Arizona & the Southwest Paintings from Santa Fe Industries Inc (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Phoenix Art Museum
25 pages (color)
Picturesque Images from Taos and Santa Fe (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Denver Art Museum
215 pages (color)
Selections from the Collection Mr & Mrs Fred T Hogan (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Museum of Texas Tech Univ
60 pages (color)
American Masters in the West Selections from the Anschutz Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Schriever, George; Dean Krakel (Intro)
64 pages (color)
The West Remembered (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Baird, Joseph Armstrong
88 pages (color)
The Southwest The Land and the People (Exhibition catalog)
1973
Phoenix Art Museum
40 pages
Harmsen's Western Americana
1971
Harmsen, Dorothy
212 pages (color)
The West and Walter Bimson Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings and Sculpture
1971
Steadman, William E
223 pages (color)
Art of the Western Scene 1880-194 (Exhibition catalog)
1970
Phoenix Art Museum
28 pages
The Cowboy in Art
1968
Ainsworth, Ed; John Wayne (Foreward)
242 pages (color)
The McKee Collection of Paintings (Exhibition catalog)
1968
El Paso Museum of Art
66 pages (color)
An Exhibition of Paintings of the Southwest From the Santa Fe Railway Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1966
Hinkhouse, F M
26 pages
Taos and Santa Fe The Artists Environment 1882-1942
1963
Coke, Van Deren
168 pages (color)
Taos and Its Artists
1947
Luhan, Mabel Dodge
168 pages
Catalogue: Annual Exhibition John H. Vanderpoel Art Association (By Contributors to the Collection) (Exhibition catalog)
1940
Klug, William L (Introductory Essay)
64 pages
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index