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Name	Henderson, William Penhallow
Born	June 4, 1877
Birthplace	Medfor, Massachusetts
Places of residence	Lived at 701 Park Place from 1905 to 1916. Henderson and Corbin were at the hub of the Lake Bluff Artist's Colony. Henderson was "voted by Lake Forest society as the greatest portrait painter in Illinois".
Nationality	American
Education	Boston Normal Art School in 1891 Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1899
Occupation	Instructor at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts from 1904 to 1910. His work from the 1910s included commissioned portraits, pastels of Chicago and Lake Bluff, and large murals for public buildings (none of which remain). He produced wood cuts, set designs and illustrations that accompanied Corbin's published works. - Wood block illustrations for Adam's Dreams, a series of children's Bible plays, and for Corbin's translation of Hans Christian Anderson's Best Fairy Tales. - Set and costume designs for Alice and Wonderland. Exhibited at Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, Art Institute of Chicago and many galleries. - A 1911 exhibit included Henderson with Mary Cassett and Robert Henri. - His paintings and pastels were the subject of a one-man exhibit in 1913. In New Mexico, Henderson was central to a burgeoning arts community and a founder of New Mexico Painters Society, and he produced brilliantly lit landscapes of New Mexico and its society. A June 26, 1908, exhibition of Henderson's paintings was held at the Durand Art Institute of Lake Forest for the benefit of the Alice Home Hospital.
Role	Artist
Spouse	Alice Corbin
Notes	Won the Paige Traveling Scholarship allowing for study in Europe in 1902 and 1903. Chicago Tribune included him in the "Great Nine" Chicago painters of the age (1915). In 1925 Henderson and his son-in-law formed a building company through which he designed and built homes and public buildings. During the 1930s he worked under the auspices of the Federal Arts Project.

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