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About Glenn C. Henshaw
The aloof and eccentric Henshaw began at the Munich Academy under Carl von Marr. Later in Paris, Henshaw married an Italian student of Rodin and the two shared a maid’s room during their vie de bohPme. Henshaw contributed to the Paris Salon. Writer and editor Joseph Lewis French proclaimed "to own a Henshaw, even one of the smaller examples, was something that those in the know in New York have long coveted," and Henshaw’s works were sought out by connoisseurs.
The Murat Shrine Temple, now the Murat Centre, was a Masonic temple erected between 1909 and 1910 on the corner of Massachusetts, Michigan and New Jersey Streets in Indianapolis. It features towers and domes in fanciful styles of the Ancient Near East, a vast and ornate Egyptian Room and a theater. This pastel is typical of Henshaw’s work, which recalls Whistler, in the use of colored paper, in the suggestion of forms by ephemeral outlines, in allowing the paper to show through in certain areas and in the sparse use of color. |
Paintings by Glenn C. Henshaw
| Murat Shrine, Indianapolis |
| pastel on paper: 10 x 14 inches |
| signed and dated 1912 |
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