Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
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Photo: Patricia Hills
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10.0 Civil War Themes
Johnson was thirty-six years old when the Civil War began. Although he did not serve in the Union Army, he followed the Union troops in search of subjects that would appeal to a pro-Union audience. He also painted pictures of the homefront. —PH
Hills no. 10.0.24
The Pension Claim-Agent
de Young Museum - Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco title: The Pension Claim Agent
Alternate titles: "The Pension Agent"; Pension Agent; The Pension Agent
1867
Oil on canvas
25 1/4 x 37 3/8 in. (64.1 x 94.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: E. Johnson./1867
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Description / Remarks
Henry T. Tuckerman, Book of the American Artists: American Artist Life, 1867: "Agent seated at table, hat on bed, valise on floor, pen in hand. Soldier stands on crutch. Two old people on side, housewife at cupboard, girl sits peeling apples."
Provenance
Exhibitions
National Academy of Design, New York, Forty-Second Annual Exhibition, April 16–July 4, 1867. (Exhibition catalogue: NAD 1867a), no. 452, as The Pension Claim Agent, owner Eastman Johnson.
National Academy of Design and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The New York Centennial Loan Exhibition, June 23–November 10, 1876, no. 85, as Pension Agent.
Hahnemann Hospital Fair, Madison Square Garden, New York, April 1880, as The Pension Agent.
The Union League Club of New York, New York, Paintings by American Artists, January 14–16, 1892, no. 34, as The Pension Agent.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The Civil War: The Artists' Record, November 17–December 31, 1961. (Williams 1961), no. 228, p. 249. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, February 1–March 4, 1962.
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, Eastman Johnson: Painting America, October 29, 1999–February 6, 2000. (Exhibition catalogue: Carbone and Hills 1999), no. 35, p. 69, as The Pension Claim Agent. Traveled to: San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, San Diego, February 25–May 21, 2000; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, June 8–September 10, 2000.
References
Tuckerman, Henry T. Book of the American Artists: American Artist Life. New York: G. P. Putnam & Son, 1867, p. 469, as The Pension Claim-Agent.
Catalogue of the Forty-Second Annual Exhibition. New York: National Academy of Design, 1867. Exhibition catalogue (1867a NAD), no. 452, as The Pension Claim Agent, owner Eastman Johnson.
Catalogue of Mr. George I. Seney's Important Collection of Modern Paintings. New York: American Art Association, February 11–13, 1891. Sale catalogue, no. 227, p. 246, as The Pension Agent.
Catalogue of the Private Art Collection of Thomas B. Clarke. New York: American Art Association, February 1899. Sale catalogue, no. 265, as The Pension Agent.
Fowler, Frank. "Eastman Johnson—His Life and Works." Scribner's Magazine 40, no. 2 (August 1906), p. 256, as The Pension Agent.
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Charcoal Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1920. Exhibition catalogue (1920 Kennedy Galleries), p. 12, addendum "Paintings by Eastman Johnson," as The Pension Agent.
Williams, Hermann Warner. The Civil War: The Artists' Record. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1961. Exhibition catalogue (1961 Corcoran Gallery of Art), p. 249, no. 228, as The Pension Agent.
Weinberg, H. Barbara. "Thomas B. Clarke: Foremost Patron of American Art from 1872 to 1899." The American Art Journal 8, no. 1 (May 1976), p. 77, as The Pension Agent, 25 1/4 x 37 1/2.
Carbone, Teresa A., and Patricia Hills. Eastman Johnson: Painting America. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. Exhibition catalogue (1999 Brooklyn Museum), p. 69, no. 35, as The Pension Claim Agent.
Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 2018-02-27
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Record last updated May 26, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "The Pension Claim-Agent, 1867 (Hills no. 10.0.24)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=118 (accessed on April 24, 2024).