Nashville Landscape, FDR

Artist: Glenn Cooper Henshaw

Medium: Pastel on Paper

Year: 1880 - 1946

Accession Number: 2018.04.07

Dimensions: 15” X 15.75”

Credit: Gift of the Richard & Phyllis Boehning Collection

This pastel on toned paper, most likely from the 1940s, leaves the viewer to wonder what artist Glenn Cooper Henshaw was thinking. Why the FDR initials on the outhouse? Who knows, but you can see it as part of the Art Museum’s permanent collection. Henshaw was a Hoosier who studied in Munich and Paris, before returning to Nashville, Indiana. He was best known for his pastels and oils in a toned-down palette as well as being able to finish a canvas in a very fast two or three hours.