Cathedral Woods, Monhegan Island

Artist Robert Henri (American, 1865-1929)

Place of OriginUnited States

Date1911

DimensionsFrame: 36 × 30 × 2 in. (91.4 × 76.2 × 5.1 cm)
Canvas: 31 7/8 × 25 7/8 in. (81 × 65.7 cm)

Mediumoil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LineFrederick B. and Kate L. Shoemaker Fund

Object number

1919.47

On View

External Site Address (External address), On Loan

Label TextRobert Henri first discovered Monhegan Island off the Maine coast in the summer of 1903, while visiting at Boothbay Harbor. Henri was so taken with the landscape and the dramatically changing weather that he planned to build a studio there, but never did. In September 1911, on his second trip to Monhegan, he painted this canvas of Cathedral Woods, so-called because of the trees arching over the winding pathways.Published ReferencesHenri, R., Record Book G, (collection of Mrs. John LeClair, Glen Gardner, N.J.), p. 3, entry dated Sept. 1911.

Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, no. 35, March 1920, repr.

The Beacon, Findlay, Ohio, 1949, repr. in color on cover.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, American Paintings, Toledo, 1979, p. 60, pl. 144.

The Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, no. 35, March 1920, repr.

Perlman, Bennard B., Robert Henri, His Life and Work, New York, 1991, repr. p. 101.

Curtis, Jan and Will, Monhegan, the Artists' Island, Camden, 1995, repr. p. 70 (col.).

Kiell, Matthew, Monhegan Windows: A Novel in Two Entwined Threads, Forest Park, Ill., Ridgewood Publications, 2010, repr. p. 331.

Exhibition HistoryNew York, Montross, 1917.

New York, Knoedler, 1918.

Boston, Boston Art Club, 1918.

Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1919.

Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, Eighth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists, 1919, no. 35.

Providence, Rhode Island School of Design, 1919.

Davenport, Davenport Museum, 1939 Bloomfield Hills, MI, Cranbrook Academy, Light and the Painter, September 1952, no. 50.

Columbus, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts; Dayton, Dayton Art Institute; Akron, Akron Art Institute; Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art, Painters of Ohio's Past, Ohio Sesquicentennial Exhibition, 1953.

Toledo, The Toledo Museum of Art, Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition of Contemporary American Oil Painitngs Acquired by the Toledo Museum, 1901-1951, 1951.

Flint, Flint Institute of Arts, American Landscape 1760-1960, 1960, no. 63.

Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum, 1984-85.

Lincoln, NE, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Robert Henri, 1865-1929, 1965, no. 42 (cat. by N. Geske).

Mansfield, Mansfield Art Center, The American Landscape, 1981, no. 33.

Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery, 1984-85.

Wilmington, Delaware Art Museum; University Park, Pennsylvania State University; Cincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum; Phoenix, Phoenix Art Museum; et. al., Robert Henri: Painter, 1984-1985, no. 68, p. 113, repr.