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Attracted to the gritty, vital aesthetic of the group’s leader, Robert Henri, the enterprising couple looked him up in the phone book. The eventual result was this portrait, characteristic of Henri’s work at the time in its subdued palette enlivened by splashes of bright color. Carl von Kienbusch became a major benefactor of Princeton University and donated the painting to the Museum in memory of his wife.\n","remarks":"AMER2_23-27_WLA  Day 1 Cataloguing"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Handbook Entry","textentryhtml":"\r\nEarly in 1914, Mildred Clarke von Kienbusch and her husband, Carl Otto, attended a New York exhibition of paintings by The Eight, a group consisting of former newspaper illustrators like Robert Henri, its founder, who had come together in frustration over the perceived rarefied atmosphere at the National Academy of Design and its restrictive exhibition policies. Attracted to Henri’s grittily vital aesthetic, the young von Kienbusches looked him up in the telephone book. The eventual result was this portrait — characteristic of Henri’s work at the time in its subdued palette enlivened by splashes of bright color — which Carl, who subsequently became one of the Museum’s major benefactors, donated in memory of his wife. </P></SPAN>","remarks":null}],"datebegin":1914,"sortnumber":"1977   26y","published_date":"2026-02-11 10:28:40.462807","objectid":32272,"dimensions":"61 × 51 cm (24 × 20 1/16 in.)\r\nframe: 81.8 × 71 × 8.9 cm (32 3/16 × 27 15/16 × 3 1/2 in.)","on_view":true}