Early Taos painter of Indian genre subjects and Western landscapes. Born in Pensgrove, New Jersey, 1886.  Hennings studied briefly at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, then five years at Art Institute of Chicago where he had been brought up.  In 1914 he went to Germany, the pupil of Walter Thor at the Munich Academy and of Angelo Junk at the RA in Munich, where he learned the style of academic realism.  At the outbreak of World War I he returned to Chicago as a commercial artist and muralist.  In 1917 he visited Taos, becoming a resident in 1921.  After his first one-man exhibition in Chicago he married and painted for a year in Europe and Northern Africa.  He traveled frequently, maintaining his base in Taos.

The usual description of Hennings' work is pleasant with a definite decorative pattern.  The paintings are bright and technically sophisticated but obvious in composition and subject matter.  Just before his death, Hennings completed a series of paintings for the Santa Fe Railway.

Member of Taos Society of Artists 1921.

Works in Anschutz Collection, 1974, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Houston Museum of Fine Art, Harmsen's Western Americana, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Adams Collection.