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Photo: Kemper Art Museum
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39.1 U.S. Figure & Landscape Sketches
When he returned to the United States in 1856, Johnson continued to make graphite pencil sketches in notebooks. Those that have survived time generally relate to paintings he did later, such as the many sketches of Nantucket characters or for paintings he was contemplating doing in the future. —PH
Hills no. 39.1.30v
Baur no. 52
The Cranberry Pickers (A Study) [verso of The Cranberry Pickers (A Study)]
c.1876–80
Graphite on artist's board
22 7/8 x 12 1/2 in. (58.1 x 31.8 cm)
Markings
Inscribed upper right, upside down: [?]/4; along upper right edge, sideways: WU4063; to left of prior inscription, sideways: 8987; to left of prior inscription, sideways: 17[?]435; lower along right edge, sideways: 4947; lower along right edge, sideways: 97[?]; along lower right edge, sideways: WU4063; center, sideways: AD [inside a circle]
Labels
Inscribed on label, lower right, sideways: 1475/"The Berry Pickers"/by/Eastman Johnson/12 x 23
Provenance
Frazier Gallery, New York, 1937
Albert Rosenthal, New Hope, Pennsylvania, by September 21, 1938–1939
Estate of Albert Rosenthal, with Albert Duveen, New York, by March 1940
Norman Hirschl Gallery, New York, by 1940
John Levy Galleries, New York, 1942
Albert Duveen, New York, by 1944 until at least January 1946
Victor D. Spark, New York, until 1947
Wildenstein and Company, New York, 1947 until February 27, 1963
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, February 27, 1963 (by purchase)
References
Baur 1940
Baur, John I. H. An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824–1906. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1940. Exhibition catalogue (1939 Brooklyn Museum), p. 62, no. 52.Crosby 1944
Crosby, Everett U. Eastman Johnson at Nantucket: His Paintings and Sketches of Nantucket People and Scenes. Nantucket, MA, 1944, p. 13, C.10.Record last updated February 15, 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 Cranberry Pickers (A Study) [verso of The Cranberry Pickers (A Study)], c.1876–80 (Hills no. 39.1.30v)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1289 (accessed on April 27, 2024).