Harrison was a celebrated (albeit very poor) local artist specializing in illustrations and desert landscapes. In July, 1918, Harrison was commissioned by the Los Angeles Times, to identify and make portraits of the five most beautiful women in Los Angeles. How these five were chosen has been forgotten.
This was back in the day where a man's reputation was measured solely by his station in life. On 8 MAR 1909, Harrison married Carolyn (Signor) Turner, in Coronado, California. She was the daughter of a fairly wealthy lumber supplier.
This was also a time when the man of the family was solely in charge of providing for the financial welfare of his family. Harrison's investment vehicle of choice was real estate. Unfortunately, he was a novice investor and his investment skills were not as good as his skill with a paintbrush. By 1912, they moved to 683 S. Carondelet, just off Wilshire, in Los Angeles. It was a mansion that put them in high society, but which was beyond both their economic means. Not only did they have their mansion they couldn't afford, but they also had property for which to build a summer home (which they also couldn't afford). Harrison had also purchased eighty acres of undeveloped rangeland for investment. Then he bought an alfalfa ranch. The purpose of the alfalfa ranch was to provide money during lean times, but there never has been much demand for alfalfa, so, Carrie continued to loose money. Harrison was very sure that real estate was the key to wealth, and that real estate prices would BOOM, in Los Angeles. He was right, of course, but what he didn’t know was that it wouldn’t happen until after he and Carrie had died. Eventually, they lost all their property to the tax collector. Harrison tried to update the real estate investment philosophy, but property taxes, changing market conditions and depressed real estate prices seemed to make profits impossible. His in-laws vilified him for loosing all his wife's money, but this was all hidden from public view. By the time his wife died, he was practically penniless again. His last residence was at boarding house of a family friend on Normandie Avenue, Los Angeles
More on Harrison is here: https://www.perfessorbill.com/artists/henrich.shtml and here:
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/orig-art-deco-hollywood-oil-painting-116515601 and here: https://losangeleshistory.blogspot.com/2018/02/683-south-carondelet-street-please-also.html
Occupation: illustrator, portrait and desert landscape artist. His painting of Christ was reportedly exhibited at a number of world's fairs.
Harrison Crockett Henrich 1874-1944 obit
Los Angeles Times
Sunday, 12 Mar 1944
Part II, Page 7
Harrison Henrich
Funeral services for Harrison Henrich, 69, artist, whose painting of Christ has been exhibited at a number of world's fairs, will be conducted tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. at Pierce Bros. Chapel, 720 W. Washington Blvd., with interment following in Valhalla Cemetery. Mr. Henrich resided at 1041 S. Normandie Ave., and died Thursday.
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Harrison Crockett Henrich 1874-1944 article
OVERLAND MONTHLY
Founded 1868
BRET HARTE VOL. LXXIII San Francisco, May, 1919, No. 5
Types of American Beauties
Drawn by Harrison Crockett Henrich
By Blanche Essex Heywood
HARRISON CROCKETT HENRICH, the noted artist of Chicago, New York and Paris, whose illustrations accompany this sketch, is a disciple of Sepia Art. Every touch Henrich lays on canvas is unerringly drawn, every thought he conceives is beautiful. The result is that he gives us some of the most delicate types of American beauty that have yet been produced, save perhaps those of Otto Schneider.
There is an individuality about Henrich's work that is most appealing, it is so human. He knows how to place his forms correctly and he uses light and shade tenderly.
The art-gift is an inherent quality awaiting the time for expression and development. We have come to accept the phsychological teaching that the quality of a man's work determines the man. He may elude and escape us in every other way, but in his work never, there we have him to the innermost. All that he sees and likes, all that he can conceive, his thoughts, his imagination, his love of beauty, his subtlety of emotion, his clumsiness, or his cleverness -- everything is there. If the house he builds is a house of cards you know it. But if it be hewn out of stone and enduringly put together, you know that the builder was a master of his craft.
Thus it is with Henrich's art; he puts his heart, his thought and his delightful personality into his work. Ruskin tells us that "Greek Art and all other art is fine when it makes a man's face as like a man's face as it can." This is a distinctive quality in Henrich's drawings of women. He believes that all human faces should be made as like human faces as it is possible to make them. He has a tremendous energy for work and he follows out his ideals with infinite patience. His hand is strong and firm and he keeps it under absolute control so that at all times it can move with serenity and ease.
He is at present living in Los Angeles where he has a beautiful home and a charming wife. He finds much inspiration and many varying types of beauty among the women of the Pacific Coast and the Northwest, and he has done many portraits of society maids and matrons.
This was back in the day where a man's reputation was measured solely by his station in life. On 8 MAR 1909, Harrison married Carolyn (Signor) Turner, in Coronado, California. She was the daughter of a fairly wealthy lumber supplier.
This was also a time when the man of the family was solely in charge of providing for the financial welfare of his family. Harrison's investment vehicle of choice was real estate. Unfortunately, he was a novice investor and his investment skills were not as good as his skill with a paintbrush. By 1912, they moved to 683 S. Carondelet, just off Wilshire, in Los Angeles. It was a mansion that put them in high society, but which was beyond both their economic means. Not only did they have their mansion they couldn't afford, but they also had property for which to build a summer home (which they also couldn't afford). Harrison had also purchased eighty acres of undeveloped rangeland for investment. Then he bought an alfalfa ranch. The purpose of the alfalfa ranch was to provide money during lean times, but there never has been much demand for alfalfa, so, Carrie continued to loose money. Harrison was very sure that real estate was the key to wealth, and that real estate prices would BOOM, in Los Angeles. He was right, of course, but what he didn’t know was that it wouldn’t happen until after he and Carrie had died. Eventually, they lost all their property to the tax collector. Harrison tried to update the real estate investment philosophy, but property taxes, changing market conditions and depressed real estate prices seemed to make profits impossible. His in-laws vilified him for loosing all his wife's money, but this was all hidden from public view. By the time his wife died, he was practically penniless again. His last residence was at boarding house of a family friend on Normandie Avenue, Los Angeles
More on Harrison is here: https://www.perfessorbill.com/artists/henrich.shtml and here:
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/orig-art-deco-hollywood-oil-painting-116515601 and here: https://losangeleshistory.blogspot.com/2018/02/683-south-carondelet-street-please-also.html
Occupation: illustrator, portrait and desert landscape artist. His painting of Christ was reportedly exhibited at a number of world's fairs.
Harrison Crockett Henrich 1874-1944 obit
Los Angeles Times
Sunday, 12 Mar 1944
Part II, Page 7
Harrison Henrich
Funeral services for Harrison Henrich, 69, artist, whose painting of Christ has been exhibited at a number of world's fairs, will be conducted tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. at Pierce Bros. Chapel, 720 W. Washington Blvd., with interment following in Valhalla Cemetery. Mr. Henrich resided at 1041 S. Normandie Ave., and died Thursday.
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Harrison Crockett Henrich 1874-1944 article
OVERLAND MONTHLY
Founded 1868
BRET HARTE VOL. LXXIII San Francisco, May, 1919, No. 5
Types of American Beauties
Drawn by Harrison Crockett Henrich
By Blanche Essex Heywood
HARRISON CROCKETT HENRICH, the noted artist of Chicago, New York and Paris, whose illustrations accompany this sketch, is a disciple of Sepia Art. Every touch Henrich lays on canvas is unerringly drawn, every thought he conceives is beautiful. The result is that he gives us some of the most delicate types of American beauty that have yet been produced, save perhaps those of Otto Schneider.
There is an individuality about Henrich's work that is most appealing, it is so human. He knows how to place his forms correctly and he uses light and shade tenderly.
The art-gift is an inherent quality awaiting the time for expression and development. We have come to accept the phsychological teaching that the quality of a man's work determines the man. He may elude and escape us in every other way, but in his work never, there we have him to the innermost. All that he sees and likes, all that he can conceive, his thoughts, his imagination, his love of beauty, his subtlety of emotion, his clumsiness, or his cleverness -- everything is there. If the house he builds is a house of cards you know it. But if it be hewn out of stone and enduringly put together, you know that the builder was a master of his craft.
Thus it is with Henrich's art; he puts his heart, his thought and his delightful personality into his work. Ruskin tells us that "Greek Art and all other art is fine when it makes a man's face as like a man's face as it can." This is a distinctive quality in Henrich's drawings of women. He believes that all human faces should be made as like human faces as it is possible to make them. He has a tremendous energy for work and he follows out his ideals with infinite patience. His hand is strong and firm and he keeps it under absolute control so that at all times it can move with serenity and ease.
He is at present living in Los Angeles where he has a beautiful home and a charming wife. He finds much inspiration and many varying types of beauty among the women of the Pacific Coast and the Northwest, and he has done many portraits of society maids and matrons.
Harrison was a celebrated (albeit very poor) local artist specializing in illustrations and desert landscapes. In July, 1918, Harrison was commissioned by the Los Angeles Times, to identify and make portraits of the five most beautiful women in Los Angeles. How these five were chosen has been forgotten.
This was back in the day where a man's reputation was measured solely by his station in life. On 8 MAR 1909, Harrison married Carolyn (Signor) Turner, in Coronado, California. She was the daughter of a fairly wealthy lumber supplier.
This was also a time when the man of the family was solely in charge of providing for the financial welfare of his family. Harrison's investment vehicle of choice was real estate. Unfortunately, he was a novice investor and his investment skills were not as good as his skill with a paintbrush. By 1912, they moved to 683 S. Carondelet, just off Wilshire, in Los Angeles. It was a mansion that put them in high society, but which was beyond both their economic means. Not only did they have their mansion they couldn't afford, but they also had property for which to build a summer home (which they also couldn't afford). Harrison had also purchased eighty acres of undeveloped rangeland for investment. Then he bought an alfalfa ranch. The purpose of the alfalfa ranch was to provide money during lean times, but there never has been much demand for alfalfa, so, Carrie continued to loose money. Harrison was very sure that real estate was the key to wealth, and that real estate prices would BOOM, in Los Angeles. He was right, of course, but what he didn’t know was that it wouldn’t happen until after he and Carrie had died. Eventually, they lost all their property to the tax collector. Harrison tried to update the real estate investment philosophy, but property taxes, changing market conditions and depressed real estate prices seemed to make profits impossible. His in-laws vilified him for loosing all his wife's money, but this was all hidden from public view. By the time his wife died, he was practically penniless again. His last residence was at boarding house of a family friend on Normandie Avenue, Los Angeles
More on Harrison is here: https://www.perfessorbill.com/artists/henrich.shtml and here:
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/orig-art-deco-hollywood-oil-painting-116515601 and here: https://losangeleshistory.blogspot.com/2018/02/683-south-carondelet-street-please-also.html
Occupation: illustrator, portrait and desert landscape artist. His painting of Christ was reportedly exhibited at a number of world's fairs.
Harrison Crockett Henrich 1874-1944 obit
Los Angeles Times
Sunday, 12 Mar 1944
Part II, Page 7
Harrison Henrich
Funeral services for Harrison Henrich, 69, artist, whose painting of Christ has been exhibited at a number of world's fairs, will be conducted tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. at Pierce Bros. Chapel, 720 W. Washington Blvd., with interment following in Valhalla Cemetery. Mr. Henrich resided at 1041 S. Normandie Ave., and died Thursday.
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Harrison Crockett Henrich 1874-1944 article
OVERLAND MONTHLY
Founded 1868
BRET HARTE VOL. LXXIII San Francisco, May, 1919, No. 5
Types of American Beauties
Drawn by Harrison Crockett Henrich
By Blanche Essex Heywood
HARRISON CROCKETT HENRICH, the noted artist of Chicago, New York and Paris, whose illustrations accompany this sketch, is a disciple of Sepia Art. Every touch Henrich lays on canvas is unerringly drawn, every thought he conceives is beautiful. The result is that he gives us some of the most delicate types of American beauty that have yet been produced, save perhaps those of Otto Schneider.
There is an individuality about Henrich's work that is most appealing, it is so human. He knows how to place his forms correctly and he uses light and shade tenderly.
The art-gift is an inherent quality awaiting the time for expression and development. We have come to accept the phsychological teaching that the quality of a man's work determines the man. He may elude and escape us in every other way, but in his work never, there we have him to the innermost. All that he sees and likes, all that he can conceive, his thoughts, his imagination, his love of beauty, his subtlety of emotion, his clumsiness, or his cleverness -- everything is there. If the house he builds is a house of cards you know it. But if it be hewn out of stone and enduringly put together, you know that the builder was a master of his craft.
Thus it is with Henrich's art; he puts his heart, his thought and his delightful personality into his work. Ruskin tells us that "Greek Art and all other art is fine when it makes a man's face as like a man's face as it can." This is a distinctive quality in Henrich's drawings of women. He believes that all human faces should be made as like human faces as it is possible to make them. He has a tremendous energy for work and he follows out his ideals with infinite patience. His hand is strong and firm and he keeps it under absolute control so that at all times it can move with serenity and ease.
He is at present living in Los Angeles where he has a beautiful home and a charming wife. He finds much inspiration and many varying types of beauty among the women of the Pacific Coast and the Northwest, and he has done many portraits of society maids and matrons.
This was back in the day where a man's reputation was measured solely by his station in life. On 8 MAR 1909, Harrison married Carolyn (Signor) Turner, in Coronado, California. She was the daughter of a fairly wealthy lumber supplier.
This was also a time when the man of the family was solely in charge of providing for the financial welfare of his family. Harrison's investment vehicle of choice was real estate. Unfortunately, he was a novice investor and his investment skills were not as good as his skill with a paintbrush. By 1912, they moved to 683 S. Carondelet, just off Wilshire, in Los Angeles. It was a mansion that put them in high society, but which was beyond both their economic means. Not only did they have their mansion they couldn't afford, but they also had property for which to build a summer home (which they also couldn't afford). Harrison had also purchased eighty acres of undeveloped rangeland for investment. Then he bought an alfalfa ranch. The purpose of the alfalfa ranch was to provide money during lean times, but there never has been much demand for alfalfa, so, Carrie continued to loose money. Harrison was very sure that real estate was the key to wealth, and that real estate prices would BOOM, in Los Angeles. He was right, of course, but what he didn’t know was that it wouldn’t happen until after he and Carrie had died. Eventually, they lost all their property to the tax collector. Harrison tried to update the real estate investment philosophy, but property taxes, changing market conditions and depressed real estate prices seemed to make profits impossible. His in-laws vilified him for loosing all his wife's money, but this was all hidden from public view. By the time his wife died, he was practically penniless again. His last residence was at boarding house of a family friend on Normandie Avenue, Los Angeles
More on Harrison is here: https://www.perfessorbill.com/artists/henrich.shtml and here:
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/orig-art-deco-hollywood-oil-painting-116515601 and here: https://losangeleshistory.blogspot.com/2018/02/683-south-carondelet-street-please-also.html
Occupation: illustrator, portrait and desert landscape artist. His painting of Christ was reportedly exhibited at a number of world's fairs.
Harrison Crockett Henrich 1874-1944 obit
Los Angeles Times
Sunday, 12 Mar 1944
Part II, Page 7
Harrison Henrich
Funeral services for Harrison Henrich, 69, artist, whose painting of Christ has been exhibited at a number of world's fairs, will be conducted tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. at Pierce Bros. Chapel, 720 W. Washington Blvd., with interment following in Valhalla Cemetery. Mr. Henrich resided at 1041 S. Normandie Ave., and died Thursday.
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Harrison Crockett Henrich 1874-1944 article
OVERLAND MONTHLY
Founded 1868
BRET HARTE VOL. LXXIII San Francisco, May, 1919, No. 5
Types of American Beauties
Drawn by Harrison Crockett Henrich
By Blanche Essex Heywood
HARRISON CROCKETT HENRICH, the noted artist of Chicago, New York and Paris, whose illustrations accompany this sketch, is a disciple of Sepia Art. Every touch Henrich lays on canvas is unerringly drawn, every thought he conceives is beautiful. The result is that he gives us some of the most delicate types of American beauty that have yet been produced, save perhaps those of Otto Schneider.
There is an individuality about Henrich's work that is most appealing, it is so human. He knows how to place his forms correctly and he uses light and shade tenderly.
The art-gift is an inherent quality awaiting the time for expression and development. We have come to accept the phsychological teaching that the quality of a man's work determines the man. He may elude and escape us in every other way, but in his work never, there we have him to the innermost. All that he sees and likes, all that he can conceive, his thoughts, his imagination, his love of beauty, his subtlety of emotion, his clumsiness, or his cleverness -- everything is there. If the house he builds is a house of cards you know it. But if it be hewn out of stone and enduringly put together, you know that the builder was a master of his craft.
Thus it is with Henrich's art; he puts his heart, his thought and his delightful personality into his work. Ruskin tells us that "Greek Art and all other art is fine when it makes a man's face as like a man's face as it can." This is a distinctive quality in Henrich's drawings of women. He believes that all human faces should be made as like human faces as it is possible to make them. He has a tremendous energy for work and he follows out his ideals with infinite patience. His hand is strong and firm and he keeps it under absolute control so that at all times it can move with serenity and ease.
He is at present living in Los Angeles where he has a beautiful home and a charming wife. He finds much inspiration and many varying types of beauty among the women of the Pacific Coast and the Northwest, and he has done many portraits of society maids and matrons.
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