In 1860, E.L. Henry left the Academy and traveled to Paris to continue his studies. He attended Beaux-Arts Academie. The disciplined curriculum there under Robert-Fleury and Marc-Gabriel-Charles Gleyre would forever influence E.L. Henry's career. In 1862 he returned to New York and had a studio at 15 th Street Studio Building. He exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1861, while living in Italy and continued until 1890. He was elected Associate to the National Academy in 1867. Henry experienced the Civil War in 1864 when he served as captain's clerk aboard a Union Quartermaster's supply transport on the James River in Virginia . He did a series of penciled “War Sketches” and pastel crayon studies documenting behind the lines scenes of a Federal occupation force during the siege of Petersburg . He chronicled a non-combat side of the soldiering important to the events of the period. Henry made two additional trips to Europe . In 1871 he traveled to paint and study and then in 1875 with his bride. They lived in London from 1875 to 1879, where he exhibited at the Royal Academy and Suffolk Street Gallery. He also exhibited at the 1878 Universal Exposition in Paris and at the 1889 Universal Exposition where he received honorable mention. Mountain Stage served the whole countryside, passing through Cragsmoor on its swing around from Newburgh to Kingston . Henry's Cragsmoor paintings frequently pictured Cragsmoor people. The Henrys returned to United States in 1880's and he kept his studio at 51w 10 th Street , New York City . He built a summer home in Cragsmoor, near Ellenville , New York . Cragsmoor soon became an artist's colony, attracting George Inness, Arthur Keller and others. At Cragsmoor he painted the daily routine of a life whose scale was modest. |