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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
Provenance
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, until 1976
Private collection, 1976 (by purchase)
Private collection, until November 2012 (by descent)
[Heritage Auctions, Dallas, November 15, 2012, lot 73128]
David Dufour and Thomas Colville, New York, November 15, 2012
Charles and Nancy Geschke, Los Altos, California, 2013 (by purchase)
Exhibitions
1870 Century Association
Century Association, New York, January 10, 1870, [possibly, as Boy in a Corner].1873b NAD
National Academy of Design, New York, April 15–June 7, 1873. (Exhibition catalogue: NAD 1873), no. 203, [possibly, as The Sulky Boy].References
NAD 1873
New York: National Academy of Design, 1873. Exhibition catalogue (1873b NAD), no. 203 [possibly, as The Sulky Boy].The Aldine 1873
"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].loading
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 May 2, 2024).