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E. MARTIN HENNINGS

E. Martin Hennings was born in Pennsgrove, New Jersey, in 1886, and raised in Chicago. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and the Art Institute of Chicago before enrolling in the Munich Academy in 1914, where he first began to abandon his classical realist training. With the onset of WW I, Hennings returned to Chicago, where he was an instructor at the Art Institute. In 1917 he was sponsored to travel to the southwest. It was on this trip that Hennings first discovered Taos, New Mexico where he’d move permanently in 1924, banding together with friends from Munich, Walter Ufer and Victor Higgins. All three artists eventually joined the historically important Taos Society of Artists, a group formed in 1915 that worked together to promote the Taos art colony and further the goal of becoming an internationally recognized art center. The original members of the group, known collectively as the “Taos Six” included Eanger Irving Couse, Joseph Henry Sharp, Oscar Berninghaus, Bert Geer Phillips, W. Herbert Dunton, and Ernest Blumenschein. The remainder of Hennings’ life was devoted to rich painterly works that venerated his Native American subjects.

For additional information, visit:
The lure of the American Southwest: E. Martin Hennings, “Rabbit Hunt”, Denver Art Museum
Southwest Art: E Martin Hennings
Paintings in the Smithsonian American Art Museum
”E. Martin Hennings: Taos Artist” - Traditional Fine Arts Organization

Public Collections

Phoenix Art Museum
Denver Art Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Gilcrease Museum
National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.