Gentlemen, I Intend Buying Some of Your Pictures if My Wife Likes Them
Date1908
Artist
Robert Henri
(American painter, 1865–1929)
MediumCarbon pencil on paper
Dimensionssheet: 4 3/4 × 8 1/2 in. (12.1 × 21.6 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Helen Farr Sloan, 2011
Object number2011-80
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextIn this comic drawing, a couple arrives at Macbeth Gallery ready to purchase pictures from the eight assembled artists...if his wife likes it. In reality, the most important purchaser from the exhibition was Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, who would eventually open the Whitney Museum of American Art. Whitney purchased four works which remain in the collection of the Whitney Museum. Three others were sold as well, for sales amounting to nearly $4,000.
