William penhallow henderson biography definition
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Objectives
Objective(s) for younger students: focus on the idea of the artist creating a visual image inspired by a poem, which was, in turn, inspired by an event; establish a basic awareness of the artist, poet, and historical connection to Abraham Lincoln/Civil War.
Objective(s) for older students: explore the connections between the drawing and the poem; consider the historical foundations of the subject material, poet, and artist; discuss themes relevant to contemporary issues.
Key Skills
- Literacy: visual, reading, writing
- Historical analysis
- Textual analysis
- Historical research
- Writing & composition
Cross-curricular Connections
- English Literature (poetry)
- History
- Literacies: visual, reading, writing
- Drawing
Curriculum Materials
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Curriculum Images
William Penhallow Henderson, When Lilacs Last in the Door Yard Bloom’d, circa 1909, pastel on brown wove paper, 8 1/2 x 25 1/2 in. C
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Scope and Contents
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The Green Cloak (1912)
William Penhallow Henderson was an American painter, architect, and furniture designer.
William Penhallow Henderson was born in 1877 in Medford, Massachusetts. His father, William Oliver Henderson, was a friend of painter William Edward Norton and an amateur painter himself. During Henderson's childhood, the family moved several times, settling in Turkey Creek, Texas in 1879 and in Clifton, Kansas in 1886.
Returning to Boston in 1891, Henderson studied at the Massachusetts Normal Art School and, in 1899, entered the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, studying under Edmund Charles Tarbell. In the following year, he won the Paige Traveling Scholarship for two years of study in Europe. His travels, from 1902–1903, included London, where he became acquainted with the family of John Singer Sargent. He also traveled to Paris, Berlin, Dresden, Madrid, and the Azores.
From 1904 to 1910, Henderson taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago. In 1904 he