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20.1 Boys Indoors
Young boys have been a traditional staples of genre painting. To patrons of art during the mid-nineteenth century these youths recalled memories of their own growing years in which innocence was becoming more and more modified by mischievous cunning. —PH
Hills no. 20.1.5
Little Boy on a Stool
Alternate titles: possibly Boy in a Corner; possibly The Sulky Boy; Little Boy on a Stool (Choosing Sides)
1861
Oil on canvas
11 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. (28.6 x 23.5 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: E. Johnson / 1861
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Provenance
Private collection, 1976 (by purchase)
Private collection, until November 2012 (by descent)
Exhibitions
Century Association, New York, January 10, 1870, [possibly, as Boy in a Corner].
References
New York: National Academy of Design, 1873. Exhibition catalogue (1873b NAD), no. 203 [possibly, as The Sulky Boy].
"Art: Annual Exhibition of N. A. of Design." The Aldine 6 (June 1873), p. 127 [possibly: "The South Room detains us longest. It contains the best figure pieces in the Exhibition, which are Eastman Johnson's 'Sulky Boy,' and 'Catching the Bee,' and 'The Yankee Pedlar,' by T. W. Wood…," as Sulky Boy].
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Record last updated July 16, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Little Boy on a Stool, 1861 (Hills no. 20.1.5)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1110 (accessed on April 19, 2024).