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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

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. 39.1.16
Baur no. 467
Turkey Woman
Alternate title: Turkey Girl
c.1870–80
Pencil and crayon on paper
21 x 13 in. (53.3 x 33 cm)
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Description / Remarks

Hills, 2022: Without an available photograph, it is unknown whether this is a representation of a girl or a woman.

Provenance
Mrs. Walter L. Weil, by 1940
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
1920 Kennedy Galleries
Kennedy Galleries, New York, Charcoal Drawings of Eminent Americans by Eastman Johnson, June 1920. (Exhibition catalogue: Kennedy Galleries 1920), no. 44, [possibly, as Woman, and Feathered Folk, or no. 47, as Girl with Turkey].
References
Kennedy Galleries 1920
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Charcoal Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1920. Exhibition catalogue (1920 Kennedy Galleries), p. 9 [possibly no. 44 (as Woman, and Feathered Folk) or no. 47 (as Girl with Turkey)].
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. 82, no. 467, as Turkey Girl.
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Record last updated February 15, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Turkey Woman, c.1870–80 (Hills no. 39.1.16)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1107 (accessed on May 4, 2024).