Robert Henri

(1865-1929) lived in Cozad, Dawson County. Painter and teacher originally named Robert Henry Cozad, he became renowned for founding the "ashcan school" of art which favored commonplace features of life in American cities, led a generation of artists away from academic influence toward real-life subjects; elected to National Academy of Design in 1905. Consult Lincoln Journal Star, August 30, 1998, pp. H-8, H-9 and American National Biography, Vol 10 (1999) 60l-603.

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