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20.2 Boys Outdoors
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. 20.2.2
Boy Leading a Steer to a Pile of Corn-stalks
c.1866
Oil
[dimensions unknown]
Description / Remarks
Henry T. Tuckerman, Book of the Artists: American Artist Life, 1867, p. 469: "Among other recent works of this effective and assiduous painter, are…'Boy leading a Steer to a pile of Corn-stalks'—a strong, realistic picture."
Provenance
Present whereabouts unknown
References
Tuckerman 1867
Tuckerman, Henry T. Book of the American Artists: American Artist Life. New York: G. P. Putnam & Son, 1867, p. 469: "Among other recent works of this effective and assiduous painter, are…'Boy leading a Steer to a pile of Corn-stalks'—a strong, realistic picture."Record last updated July 19, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Boy Leading a Steer to a Pile of Corn-stalks, c.1866 (Hills no. 20.2.2)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1271 (accessed on May 2, 2024).