# Himself

- By: Robert Henri (American, 1865–1929)
- Date: 1913
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: 81.9 × 66.4 cm (32 1/4 × 26 1/8 in.)
- Culture: United States
- Credit line: Walter H. Schulze Memorial Collection
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/13745)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/6ea9b674-8204-02b0-66a4-55da1a037b81/full/843,/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Robert Henri painted Himself and Herself (1924.911) (Irish terms of endearment for a husband and wife) during a summer trip to Ireland; the canvases depict the fisherman Johnnie Cummings and his wife, Biddy. The rich hues and thick, lush paint add depth to the works, while the figures’ elusive expressions and informal poses give them a brusque, forthright quality. Each portrait reveals a distinctive character and, according to Henri, was meant to be a dynamic example of “humanity in the making, in the living.”

Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0