Henry Schnautz Portrait Paintings

all from negatives, 1950s-60s

All photos by Henry Schnautz, Rights Reserved, Copyright 2008-2022 by Henry Schnautz and Terry Priest. All photos available for use under Creative Commons Commercial license CC By-SA 2.0. This means you can use for a book or an article. Please use the CC credit line and "Photo by Henry Schnautz". I would also appreciate an email with a brief description of your project simply for my education.
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Henry Schnautz 1952 at Art Students League — Henry Schnautz at Art Students League classroom.
With his GI Bill benefits, Henry Schnautz enrolled in the Art Students League school of New York and began painting portraits. The native Americans were taken from archive photos. Henry was friends with historian Eve Ball who interviewed descendants and contemporaries of the chiefs.

St. Joseph Apache Mission restoration project PDF

Henry's painting of the chiefs Victorio, Cochise, Naiche and Geronimo are on display at the St. Joseph Apache Mission in Mescalero, New Mexico. You can just barely see them in one of the "After" pictures flanking the main door. See page 4 and 6

Geronimo - Eve Ball made Henry's painting into a post card

Elda Patton was a friend of Henry's from his home who was in Mexico and New York at the same time he was. This painting is from the 1950s

Henry Schnautz satirically posing as prophet pointing to dollar sign — Henry Schnautz sketch of himself

Henry Schnautz bearing an iron cross — Henry Schnautz photo

Trotsky - The photo is from 1924. It is usually found flipped but Henry's original signature HS '61 is visible just below the digitized signature I added.