Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné

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

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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. 39.1.20

Baur no. 410

Figures

Alternate title: Study for Corn Husking

c.1871–75

Locale: Likely Nantucket, Massachusetts

Pencil

12 1/4 x 16 1/4 in. (31.1 x 41.3 cm)

Present whereabouts unknown

Description / Remarks

Hills, 2021: This drawing likely is a study for one of Johnson's Nantucket corn husking pictures.

Baur 1940, p. 79: "A boy, seven other figures and two studies of chickens."

Provenance

Mrs. George A. Martin, 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. 410, as Figures.

Keywords

Subject matter:
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Record last updated March 27, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Figures, c.1871–75 (Hills no. 39.1.20)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1094 (accessed on May 3, 2024).