Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

He became an influential figure in the Santa Fe art scene and persuaded the director of the state art museum to adopt an open-door policy. The couple spent the next two years on an extended honeymoon in France during which time Henri prepared canvases to submit to the Salon. which he modeled after the Salon des Indépendants in France.

He was a leading figure of the Ashcan School in art.