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13.7 Maine Haylofts, 1870s
In 1877, and possibly 1878, Johnson visited his sister Harriet May and her family in Kennebunkport, Maine. He found a delightful subject in the games the children played in the barn. For Johnson it was another opportunity to render darkened interiors, from which figures emerge, with sunlight shining through loft doors and playing off the partially illuminated figures and objects in the foreground. It is quite likely that many of the paintings were finished in his New York studio. —PH
Hills no. 13.7.6
Barn Swallows
Alternate title: possibly Barn Swallows, A Group of Children
1878
Locale: Kennebunkport, Maine
Oil on canvas
26 5/8 x 22 1/4 in. (67.6 x 56.5 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: E. Johnson/1878
Provenance
Julian Kotekas, by 2014
Lewis C. Kotekas 2007 Trust
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, 2017 (by gift)
Exhibitions
2018 Currier Museum of Art
Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, People and Places: Recent Acquisitions, June 22, 2018–April 22, 2019, as Barn Swallows.References
Wilson and Fiske 1888
Wilson, James Grant, and John Fiske, eds. Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography Vol. III: Grinnell–Lockwood. New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1888, p. 442 [possibly, as Barn Swallows, A Group of Children].Brush and Pencil 1906
"The Necrology of Art." Brush and Pencil 17, no. 5 (May 1906), p. 106 [possibly, as Barn Swallows].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 Barn Swallows].loading
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Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Barn Swallows, 1878 (Hills no. 13.7.6)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1331 (accessed on May 7, 2024).