Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager
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Photo: Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN
Orrin Wheeler Rice, 1857, July (Hills no. 45.1.29)
Photo: Patricia Hills
Orrin Wheeler Rice, 1857, July (Hills no. 45.1.29)
Photo: Patricia Hills
Orrin Wheeler Rice, 1857, July (Hills no. 45.1.29)
Photo: Patricia Hills
Orrin Wheeler Rice, 1857, July (Hills no. 45.1.29)
Photo: Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN
45.1 U.S. Later Portrait Drawings, Men

When Johnson returned from Europe late in 1855 and moved in with his family in Washington, D.C., he began receiving portrait commissions. Like those done earlier, Johnson generally used charcoal (named in some records as black chalk) with touches of white and created a strong chiaroscuro for his sitters. Gradually he moved away from the strong chiaroscuro style he had been using, and his later portraits tend to be sketchier (as was the taste in art at the time) but no less professional. He used pastel to bring in color in some of these portraits. —PH

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Hills no. 45.1.29
Orrin Wheeler Rice
1857, July
Charcoal and white crayon on paper
20 x 16 3/8 in. (50.8 x 41.6 cm) (sight)
Signed and dated lower right, at an angle: E. Johnson / July 1857
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Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Orrin Wheeler Rice, 1857, July (Hills no. 45.1.29)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1130 (accessed on March 29, 2024).