Lot 625
American School, early 20th c., ³Portrait of Willie Gee², oil on canvas, unsigned, 25 in. x 20 in., in a later wood frame. Note: The young boy depicted in this portrait is almost identical in facial features and clothing to Robert Henri¹s ³Portrait of Willie Gee ³ of 1904, now in the Newark Museum of Art. In the early 1900s, Henri painted many portraits of the lower-class citizens of New York City, earning his group the name ³The Ashcan School.² Willie Gee, a local paperboy, was one of Henri¹s subjects at a time when Henri was teaching painting in the city. It is feasible, therefore, that this portrait may be by one of Henri¹s students.
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