Glen Cooper Henshaw

Artist: Glen Cooper Henshaw
Birth: August 8th, 1880
Birth City: Windfall, Indiana
Birth County: Tipton
Death: April 4th, 1946
Death City: Baltimore, MD.
Burial: Elwood Cemetery Elwood, Indiana
Married: Olive M. Galencia on August 24th, 1905
Children: None
2nd Marriage:  Carolyn Hastings on December 31st, 1933
2nd Marriage Children: None

Artist Summary: 

Formal Training: John Herron School of Art, Munich Germany, Ecole des Beaux-Arts
Subject Matter:  Portraits, Cityscapes, Landscapes, Seascapes, Portraits,
Media: Oils, Pastels, Graphite, Gouache
Art Associations: Society of Independent Artists
Art Awards:
Art Exhibitions: Hoosier Salon, Society of Independent Artists

Glen Cooper Henshaw

Biography of Glen Cooper Henshaw

1. Glen changed the spelling of his last name from Hinshaw to Henshaw around 1911 or 1912.
2. Glen's mother died when he was an infant, so he and his sister went to live with their aunt in Mechanicsburg.
3. Once his father remarried, Glen and his sister Effie returned to Windfall.
4. Glen was the only boy in his high school class to graduate.
5. He was one of the first students of the John Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, IN.
6. A doctor financed his trip abroad to study art.
7. He studied in Munich, Germany, for more than a year, but his instructors were too structured, so he moved on to Paris.
8. Impressionism matched his style and personality, so he spent the next ten years in France and Italy.
9. Glen studied under Bonnat at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and under Laurens at the Academie Julien.
10. He married an Italian woman named Olive M. Galencia, August 24th, 1905, who was a studying sculptor at the Rodin in Paris.
11. The threat of war in Europe prompted the Henshaws to move back to the US and open a studio in New York City.
12. Soon after moving to the US, Olive became ill and died.
13. Glen painted scenes up and down the east coast.
14. Came to Indianapolis to paint portraits.
15. Met and married a teacher from Baltimore named Carolyn Hastings.
16. Once married, he then moved and opened a studio in Baltimore.
17. Glen's work was highly regarded, but by the late 1930s, cubism and expressionism came into favor, and his work was considered old school.
18. In 1941 the Henshaws worried the east coast would get bombed during the war, so he moved to Nashville, In. 
19. After Glenn bought the Odd Fellows building, he required the well know photographer Frank Hohenberger to move out.  Frank had lived there for 24 years.
20. He continued to summer in Brown County for five years, painting the people and surrounding area.
21. 85 of the 400 oils upon his death went to the Brown County Art Gallery for a permanent collection. Unfortunately, a fire at the gallery destroyed much of his work.

Other Relevant Posts

Glen Cooper Henshaw painting sells for $27,000
Permanent Glen Cooper Henshaw Gallery located at the Brown County Art Gallery
Oil Painting titled "Boats against Sunset sells for $13,000


Sources:
1. Lyn Letsinger-Miller - The Artists of Brown County - Indiana University Press Bloomington and Indianapolis 1994
2. Henshaw Family tree, http://www.rawbw.com/~hinshaw/cgi-bin/id?10329