Born in Medford, Massachusetts, William Penhallow Henderson became a painter of Indian motifs, especially New Mexico pueblo dance figures. His work conveyed a highly personal sense of the viewer... Read full biography
Born in Medford, Massachusetts, William Penhallow Henderson became a painter of Indian motifs, especially New Mexico pueblo dance figures. His work conveyed a highly personal sense of the viewer being with the subjects of his painting, and it was said that he saw beauty everywhere in his... Read full biography
Born in Medford, Massachusetts, William Penhallow Henderson became a painter of Indian motifs, especially New Mexico pueblo dance figures. His work conveyed a highly personal sense of the viewer being with the subjects of his painting, and it was said that he saw beauty everywhere in his surroundings. He spent much of an unstable childhood with a family that followed the father to a Texas cattle ranch, back to Medford, to a small Kansas town where his father was a banker, and then East again in... Read full biography
Born in Medford, Massachusetts, William Penhallow Henderson became a painter of Indian motifs, especially New Mexico pueblo dance figures. His work conveyed a highly personal sense of the viewer being with the subjects of his painting, and it was said that he saw beauty everywhere in his surroundings. He spent much of an unstable childhood with a family that followed the father to a Texas cattle ranch, back to Medford, to a small Kansas town where his father was a banker, and then East again in 1891. He studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts with Edmund Tarbell and won a Paige Traveling Scholarship that allowed him to travel and study in Europe for three years beginning 1901. There he was greatly influenced by the styles of Cezanne, Van... Read full biography
Born in Medford, Massachusetts, William Penhallow Henderson became a painter of Indian motifs, especially New Mexico pueblo dance figures. His work conveyed a highly personal sense of the viewer being with the subjects of his painting, and it was said that he saw beauty everywhere in his surroundings. He spent much of an unstable childhood with a family that followed the father to a Texas cattle ranch, back to Medford, to a small Kansas town where his father was a banker, and then East again in 1891. He studied at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts with Edmund Tarbell and won a Paige Traveling Scholarship that allowed him to travel and study in Europe for three years beginning 1901. There he was greatly influenced by the styles of Cezanne, Van Gogh, Renoir and Whistler. He then taught in Chicago at the Academy of Fine Arts, painted murals in the Chicago publ... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (58)
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Light, Landscape and the Creative Quest: Early Artists of Santa Fe
2012
Lewandowski, Stacia
272 pages (color)
Biographical Directory of Kansas Artists Active Before 1945
2006
Craig, Susan (Compiler)
0 pages
Santa Fe Art Colony: Gerald Peters Gallery (Exhibition catalog)
2006
Udall, Sharyn R; Julie Schimmel (Introduction)
127 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
American Paintings from the Hainsworth Collection
2005
Love, Richard; Michael Worley, Ph.D
157 pages (color)
Window on the West: Chicago and the Art of the New Frontier, 1890-1940 (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Barter, Judith & Kelly, Sarah
184 pages (color)
Serenading the Light: Painters of the Desert Southwest (Collection of Billy Schenck)
2003
Clemmer, David
120 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
Espana: American Artists and the Spanish Experience (Hollis Taggart Galleries) (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Boone, M Elizabeth
112 pages (color)
Red Book Price Guide-1997 Western American Art
1997
Southwest Art
128 pages
Art in the American South Works from the Ogden Collection
1996
Delehanty, Randolph
292 pages (color)
American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists
1996
Shipp, Steve
159 pages
Contested Terrain Myth and Meaning in Southwest Art
1996
Udall, Sharyn R
180 pages (color)
New Mexico Art History Conference Abstracts, 1986-1995
1996
White, Robert (Editor)
88 pages
Treasures on New Mexico Trails Discover New Deal Art and Architecture
1995
Flynn, Kathryn A
320 pages (color)
Santa Fe Art
1993
Ellis, Simone
112 pages (color)
Master Index 1971-1993 Artists in Southwest Art
1993
Southwest Art
64 pages
Artists of 20th Century New Mexico Museum of Fine Arts Collection
1992
Museum of Fine Arts
167 pages (color)
Visions & Visionaries Art and Artists of the Santa Fe Railway
1991
D'Emilio, Sandra; Suzan Campbell
147 pages (color)
American Drawings in the French National Collection, 1760-1945 (Exhibition catalog)
1991
Wiesinger, Veronique; Clair Vaudevire; Pierre Rosenberg (Preface)
110 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 Far Midwest, Rocky Mountain West, Southwest, Pacific Volume Three
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings
612 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Santa Fe Art Colony 1900-1942 (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Udall, Sharyn R.
99 pages (color)
Art in New Mexico, 1900-1945 Paths to Taos and Santa Fe
1986
Eldredge, Charles/J Schimmel
218 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
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
Arts of the American Renaissance (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Hirschl & Adler Galleries
123 pages (color)
The American West The Modern Vision
1984
Broder, Patricia Janis
345 pages (color)
William Penhallow Henderson Master Colorist of Santa Fe (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Deeds, Daphne Anderson
108 pages (color)
The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum
1984
Orr-Cahill, Christina
199 pages (color)
Masterpieces of the American West Selections from the Anschutz Collection
1983
Cunningham, Elizabeth
152 pages (color)
The Santa Fe and Taos Colonies Age of The Muses, 1900-1942
1983
Gibson, Arrell Morgan
305 pages
William Penhallow Henderson The Thirty Years (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Feldman, Sandra K
29 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
Light & Color Images from New Mexico
1981
Museum of Fine Arts
94 pages (color)
Visitors to Arizona 1846-1980 (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Ballinger, James K
206 pages (color)
The New Deal in the Southwest: Arizona and New Mexico (Exhibition catalog)
1980
Bermingham, Peter
67 pages
American Western Art: The Harmsen Collection
1977
Harmsen, Dorothy; Bill Harmsen (Foreward)
256 pages (color)
Paintings from the McKee Foundation (Exhibition catalog)
1976
Phoenix Art Museum
36 pages (color)
Artists of the Canyons and Caminos, Santa Fe, the Early Years
1976
Robertson, Edna/Sarah Nestor
182 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
Santa Fe Collects (Exhibition catalog)
1975
Santa Fe Festival of the Arts
64 pages (color)
Picturesque Images from Taos and Santa Fe (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Denver Art Museum
215 pages (color)
Handbook of the Collections Museum of Fine Arts
1974
New Mexico, Museum of Fine Art
192 pages (color)
American Masters in the West Selections from the Anschutz Collections (Exhibition catalog)
1974
Schriever, George; Dean Krakel (Intro)
64 pages (color)
The McKee Collection of Paintings (Exhibition catalog)
1968
El Paso Museum of Art
66 pages (color)
Taos and Santa Fe The Artists Environment 1882-1942
1963
Coke, Van Deren
168 pages (color)
Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index
1935
Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge
1,130 pages
A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1933
Harshe, Robert (Introduction)
215 pages
Official Catalogue of Exhibitors Department B, Art (Exhibition catalog)