Robert Henri, 1908
Courtesy Library of Congress
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ROBERT HENRI: A NEW LOOK
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The Robert Henri Museum is pleased to announce that it will be sponsoring its first ever conference on Robert Henri on October 15-17, 2021 in Cozad Nebraska. The museum staff has finished making preparations and plans and including the program and registration here. If you want to attend or would like to know more about it please feel free to email us at rhenri@cozadtel.net. If you want to pay by check and register by mail please push the Registration form button.
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If you would prefer to register and pay online you can go to our Gift Shop and do so there.
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CONFERENCE PROGRAM
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2021
Reception at the Robert Henri Museum and Art Gallery - 6:00 pm– 9:00 pm
Sponsored by Ervin and Grace Burkholder Foundation
Registration and Packet Distribution
Tours of Robert Henri’s Boyhood Home and Art Gallery
Gift Shop open to participants
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2021
Registration and Packet Distribution – 7:30 am – 8:45 am
Tours of Robert Henri’s Boyhood Home and Art Gallery
Gift Shop open to participants
PROGRAM
The Paulsen Conference Center, Highway 30, Cozad, Nebraska
WELCOME
Marlene Geiger, President, Robert Henri Museum and Art Gallery
9:00 AM
MAKING HIS MARK: ROBERT HENRI AS PAINTER AND PROMOTER
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Dr. Valerie Ann Leeds
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
REFLECTIONS ON MANAGING THE ROBERT HENRI ESTATE
Janet LeClair, Executor, The Robert Henri Estate
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
LUNCH – BROWN BAG
THE COLOR INVESTIGATIONS OF ROBERT HENRI
Judith Reeve
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
CONNECTIONS: ROBERT & EULABEE
Nicole Herden
Director, Museum of Nebraska Art
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
ROBERT HENRI THE “REVOLUTIONISER”:
NAVIGATING IMPRESSIONISM AND REALISM
Brittany Strupp
PhD Candidate, Tyler School of Art, Temple University
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
NEBRASKA SIGN-POSTS: THE NEBRASKA LEGACY OF ROBERT HENRI
Peter Osborne, Executive Director, Robert Henri Museum and Art Gallery
3:30 PM –4 :30 PM
CONCLUSION OF CONFERENCE
Marlene Geiger, President, Robert Henri Museum and Art Gallery
DINNER AT THE ELKS LODGE, COZAD, NEBRASKA
Special Presentation after Dinner
AFTER DINNER AND PROGRAM
7:00 pm– 9:00 pm
Tours of Robert Henri’s Boyhood Home
Tours of Robert Henri Art Gallery
Gift Shop open to participants
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2021
Final Packet Distributions – 7:30 am – 8:45 am
Tours of Robert Henri’s Boyhood Home
Tours of Robert Henri Art Gallery
Gift Shop open to participants
SPECIAL GUIDED TOUR OF MUSEUM OF NEBRASKA ART
Kearney, Nebraska
10:00 am
The tour will be given by Nicole Herden, Director, Museum of Nebraska Art
CONCLUSION OF CONFERENCE
Sponsored by:
The Membership of the Robert Henri Museum
Paulsen, Inc.
Gwen Spiess
Berreckman & Bazata, PC, LLO
Ervin and Grace Burkholder Foundation
Humanities Nebraska
Nebraska Cultural Endowment
Nebraska State Historical Society Foundation
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