- ROBERT HENRI 1865-1929 The Little Dancer, 1916-18 Oil on canvas, 40'/2 X 321/2 (102.87 x 82.55 cm.) Signed, lower right Museum purchase, 920-0-107 The son of a riverboat gambler, Robert Henri was born Robert Henry Cozad in 1865 and grew up in the small town of Cozad, Nebraska, which his father had founded. After his father killed a man and fled to avoid arrest for murder, the various members of ...butlerart.com/pc_book/pages/robert_henri_1865.htm