A Turbulent Genesis: The Early Life of Robert Henri Robert Henri, born Robert Henry Cozad in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1865, carried within him from the outset a sense of displacement and reinvention that would profoundly shape both his life and art. His childhood was far from idyllic; shadowed by the volatile relationship between his father, John Jackson Cozad—a man of ambition and risk as a gambler and real estate developer—and his mothe…