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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. 20.1.1
Ragamuffin
c.1860–69
Oil on board
11 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. (29.2 x 16.5 cm)
Signed lower right: E. Johnson.
Private collection
Provenance
[Christie's, December 9, 1983, lot 39 (as Ragamuffin)]
Unidentified buyer, December 9, 1983 (by purchase)
[Christie's, May 22, 1991, lot 164 (as Ragamuffin)]
Private collection, May 22, 1991 (by purchase)
Exhibitions
2006 Cantor Center for Visual Arts
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, American ABC: Childhood in 19th Century America, February 1–May 7, 2006. (Exhibition catalogue: Perry 2006), as Ragamuffin. Traveled to: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., July 4–September 17, 2006; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, November 1, 2006–January 7, 2007.References
Perry 2006
Perry, Claire. Young America: Childhood in 19th-Century Art and Culture. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. Exhibition catalogue (2006 Cantor Center for Visual Arts), p. 131, fig. 109, as Ragamuffin.Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 1983-11-10
Examination notes: 1983-11-10: Much softer than photo. Thinly painted with more buttery strokes. Sock filled into shoe—like a coloring book. Note same palette as Cranberry Pickers. Soft limeish green; soft red. Note pencil lines—lips, along trousers, etc. Large eyes—cf Barefoot Boy. Strokes in background—transparent sienna—basketweave effect.
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Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Ragamuffin, c.1860–69 (Hills no. 20.1.1)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1262 (accessed on May 5, 2024).