Henri De Kruif

Henri De Kruif studied at Art Students League of New York, Hope College and School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Training under John Vanderpoel, Frank DuMond and Francis Luis Mora is recorded. The recorded working language is English. Work by Henri De Kruif is recorded in the collections of Smithsonian American Art Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Springville Museum of Art.

• Name — Henri De Kruif • Other Names — Henry Gilbert De Kruif • Birth Name — Henri Gilbert DeKruif • Born — February 17, 1882 • Birthplace — Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. • Died — July 7, 1944 • Place of death — Los Angeles, California, U.S. • Resting Place — Pilgrim Home Cemetery, Holland, Michigan, U.S. • Education — School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Art Students League of New York, Hope College • Occupation — Visual artists, commercial artist, art theorist • Known for — Painter, watercolorist, engravings, lithography, portrait paintings, landscape paintings, illustrator • Movement — California Impressionism • Spouse — Xarifa Hamilton Towner (m. 1916–1918; her death) Muriel Earle (m. 1922–1944; his death)

Henri Gilbert De Kruif was born on February 17, 1882, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, under John Vanderpoel; at the Frank Holmes School of Illustration in Chicago; at the Art Students League of New York, under Frank DuMond, F. Luis Mora, and C. C. Beall; and the Hope College in Holland, Michigan. In Los Angeles, De Kruif studied under Stanton MacDonald-Wright.

De Kruif worked at the Grand Rapids Advertising Company. In 1911, he moved to Los Angeles, initially working at Merrill Advertising Company as a commercial artist. In 1914, he worked as a manager at Moore Advertising. He was a member of the California Art Club (CAC) in Los Angeles; and a member of the Group of Eight, alongside artists Edouard Vysekal, Luvena Buchanan Vysekal, John Hubbard Rich, Clarence Hinkle, Donna N. Schuster, E. Roscoe Shrader, and Mabel Alvarez. The Group of Eight was organized by Luvena Buchanan Vyeskal and Edouard Vyeskal, and had a basis in the progressive art movement in California.

De Kruif was married in 1916 to artist Xarifa Hamilton Towner, however she died two years later from pneumonia. In 1922, he married Muriel Earle.