Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné

Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager

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Photo: Reproduced in William Walton, "Eastman Johnson, Painter," Scribner's Magazine, September 1906

[ 26.1 Nantucket Genre—Indoors ]

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26.1 Nantucket Genre—Indoors

In June 1869 Johnson married Elizabeth Buckley of Troy, New York, and the following summer he and his wife and their baby, Ethel, went to Nantucket, Massachusetts for the season. Johnson responded enthusiastically to Nantucket, which seemed to be filled with characters and activities that appealed to him, and the couple returned to the island each summer. Beside painting genre scenes of men, women, and children both indoors and outside, Johnson launched a major theme—the cranberry harvest—a time in the fall when the whole community turned out to pick the wild cranberries ripening in the bogs of Nantucket. Johnson made at least eighteen studies before crafting his major painting, The Cranberry Harvest, which was exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1880. —PH

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Hills no. 26.1.8

A Glass with the Squire

Alternate titles: possibly A Drink with the Squire; possibly The Old Squire; Glass with the Squire

1880

Locale: Nantucket, Massachusetts

Oil

[dimensions unknown]

Signed and dated lower right: E. Johnson/1880

Present whereabouts unknown

Provenance

[Possibly Artists' Fund Society, New York, February 12–13, 1880 (as The Old Squire)]

Present whereabouts unknown

Exhibitions

1880a Century Association

Century Association, New York, January 10, 1880, [possibly, as A Glass with the Squire].

1880 Artists' Fund Society

Artists' Fund Society, New York, February 12–13, 1880, [possibly, as The Old Squire, likely owner Eastman Johnson].

1891a Union League Club of New York

The Union League Club of New York, New York, Loan Collection of Paintings in Landscape, Figure and Still Life by American Artists, January 8–10, 1891, no. 4, [possibly, as A Glass with the Squire, owner Eastman Johnson].

1906a Union League Club of New York

The Union League Club of New York, New York, Modern Paintings, January 11–13, 1906, no. 14, [possibly, as A Drink with the Squire].

References

Art Interchange 1880

"American Art News." Art Interchange 6, no. 4 (February 18, 1880), p. 31 [possibly].

Walton 1906

Walton, William. "Eastman Johnson, Painter." Scribner's Magazine 40 (September 1906), p. 271, illus., as A Glass with the Squire.

Kennedy Galleries 1920

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" [possibly, as a Glass with the Squire].

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Record last updated July 29, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "A Glass with the Squire, 1880 (Hills no. 26.1.8)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1294 (accessed on May 7, 2024).