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- inscribed with title and numbered 178L on the reverse - - oil on canvas24 x 20 3/4 in. (61 x 52.4 cm.)PROVENANCEMacbeth Gallery, Inc., New YorkDr. and Mrs. Harold Rifkin, New YorkKraushaar Galleries, Inc., New YorkNew York, Sotheby Parke-Bernet (Sale: April 20, 1979, lot 176)EXHIBITEDCincinnati, Cincinnati Art Museum, Twenty-ninth Annual Exhibition of American Art, May-July, 1922, no. 19Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Paintings by Pittsburgh and Contemporary American Artists, Dec. 1922-Jan. 1923, no. 13, as Agnes in RedRochester, New York, Memorial Art Gallery, Irish and Spanish Portraits by Robert Henri, Jan.-Feb. 1926, no. 4Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Directions in American Painting 1875-1925, June-Aug. 1982, pp. 38-39, illus. (this exhibition travelled to various locations, 1982-1987)Youngstown, Youngstown State University, The John J. McDonough Museum of Art, Inaugural Exhibition, Oct. 1991-May 1992, p. 27RELATED LITERATURER. Henri, The Art Spirit, Philadelphia, 1951, p. 186Little Girl in Red was painted in Woodstock, New York, during October, 1921. An artist colony and base for the Art Students League during the summers. Woodstock became Henri's home between June and October of that year. Here he painted nearly one hundred works, including this portrait of one of his favorite models, Agnes Sleicher, depicted with an air of sympathy that exemplifies his attitude towards children: "If you paint children you must have no patronizing attitude towards them. Whoever approaches a child without humility... wonderment, and without infinite respect, misses in his judgment of what is before him, and loses an opportunity for a marvelous response..." (R. Henri, p. 186)This painting is listed in the artist's record Book L, no. 178 as Agnes in Red.