Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné

Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager

Catalogue Entry

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[ 39.1 U.S. Figure & Landscape Sketches ]

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39.1 U.S. Figure & Landscape Sketches

When he returned to the United States in 1856, Johnson continued to make graphite pencil sketches in notebooks. Those that have survived time generally relate to paintings he did later, such as the many sketches of Nantucket characters or for paintings he was contemplating doing in the future. —PH

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Hills no. 39.1.2

Baur no. 402

Colored Boy

likely 1856–79

Charcoal on brown paper

15 x 11 in. (38.1 x 27.9 cm)

Inscribed lower center: Col. Boy; lower right, in Albert Rosenthal's hand: Eastman Johnson Rosenthal Col.

Present whereabouts unknown

Provenance

Albert Rosenthal, New Hope, Pennsylvania

Associated American Artists, New York, by 1940

Present whereabouts unknown

References

Baur 1940

Baur, John I. H. An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824–1906. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1940. Exhibition catalogue (1939 Brooklyn Museum), p. 79, no. 402, as Colored Boy.

Keywords

Subject matter:
- Black children »
- Black people »

Record last updated November 26, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Colored Boy, likely 1856–79 (Hills no. 39.1.2)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1090 (accessed on April 28, 2024).