Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné

Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, Project Manager and Co-Author

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. 39.1.4

Baur no. 447

Negro Boy's Head

likely 1856–79

Pencil on blue-gray paper

19 x 12 1/2 in. (48.3 x 31.8 cm)

Present whereabouts unknown

Provenance

Albert Rosenthal, New Hope, Pennsylvania, until 1939

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. 81, no. 447, as Negro Boy's Head.

Keywords

Portrait pose:
- Head »
- Portrait »
Subject matter:
- Black children »
- Black people »

Record last updated December 2, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Negro Boy's Head, likely 1856–79 (Hills no. 39.1.4)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1102 (accessed on May 2, 2025).