Catalogue Entry

Robert M. Hoe, by 1867

Robert Leighton Stuart, New York, 1867 until at least 1876

Mrs. Mary Stuart

Lenox Library [later New York Public Library], R. L. Stuart Collection, New York, by 1940

New-York Historical Society, New York (on permanent loan)

National Academy of Design, New York, Forty-first Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design, April 17–July 4, 1866. (NAD 1866), no. 247, as Sunday Morning.

Exposition Universelle, Paris, April 1–November 3, 1867. (Exhibition catalogue: Exposition Universelle 1867), no. 43 [or 49], (as Le Dimanche Matin [Sunday Morning]), owner R. M. Hoe.

National Academy of Design, New York, First Winter Exhibition, November 16, 1867–March 11, 1868. (Exhibition catalogue: NAD 1867b), no. 685, shown in a special section of works exhibited in the Paris Universal Exposition, as Sabbath Morning, owner Robert Hoe.

Yale School of Fine Arts, New Haven, Connecticut, 1870, no. 27, as Sunday Morning, owner Robert M. Hoe.

United States Centennial Commission, Philadelphia, Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, May 10–November 1876, no. 423, as Sabbath Morning, owner R. L. Stuart.

"Fine Arts." The Evening Post (New York), April 17, 1866.

"Editor's Easy Chair." Harper's Weekly 33 (June 1866), p. 117: "Mr. Johnson's two other works in the exhibition [the 41st Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design], 'Sunday Morning' and 'Fiddling His Way,' are equally delightful. The latter, of course, from the similarity of the subject, recalls Wilkie’s Blind Fiddler, but Mr. Johnson’s is as purely American as Wilkie’s is Scotch. The eye and heart would never tire of either. The exquisite skill with which the various aspects of childish pleasure are appreciated and represented in 'Fiddling His Way' is sustained in 'Sunday Morning' by a kindred insight. The youth leaning back in his chair and twirling the ring upon his finger, the sweet, sober maiden at his side, the utter jollity of the two frolicsome but quiet children behind their mother, the old people and the younger, and the very Sunday in the air, which broods over the picture, are all charming and simple and obvious, but to show them as they are, that is to paint pictures," as Sunday Morning.

Catalogue of the 41st Annual Exhibition. New York: National Academy of Design, 1866. Exhibition catalogue (1866 NAD), p. 18, no. 247, as Sunday Morning.

The Albion 5 (May 1866), p. 213, as Sunday Morning.

Catalogue Générale—Première Partie. Paris: Exposition Universelle, 1867. Exhibition catalogue (1867 Exposition Universelle), no. 43.

Tuckerman, Henry T. Book of the American Artists: American Artist Life. New York: G. P. Putnam & Son, 1867, pp. 469, 624, as Sunday Morning, Collection of Robt. Hoe, Esq, N. Y.

Official Catalogue of the International Exhibition of 1876. Part II: Art Gallery, Annexes, and Outdoor Works of Art. Department IV: Art. Cambridge, MA: John R. Nagle & Company, 1876. Exhibition catalogue, p. 29, no. 423, as Sabbath Morning, owner R. L. Stuart.

Ingram, J. S. The Centennial Exposition, Described and Illustrated. Philadelphia: Hubbard Bros., 1876, p. 374, as Sabbath Morning.

Sheldon, George William. American Painters. New York: D. Appleton, 1879, p. 168, as The Emigrants' Sunday Morning, captioned "From a Painting by Eastman Johnson." Engraving by Bell.

Benjamin, S. G. W. "A Representative American." The Magazine of Art 5 (November 1882), p. 485 (reproduced as engraved illustration).

Meynell, Wilfrid. The Modern School of Art. Vol. 1. London: W. R. Howell & Co., 1886, p. 231, illus., as Sunday Morning.

Walton, William. "Eastman Johnson, Painter." Scribner's Magazine 40 (September 1906), p. 272, as Sunday Morning.

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 Sunday Morning].

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), no. 140, as Sunday Morning.

Koke, Richard J. American Landscape and Genre Paintings in the New York Historical Society. Vol. II. New York: New-York Historical Society, 1982, p. 236.

Carbone, Teresa A., and Patricia Hills. Eastman Johnson: Painting America. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. Exhibition catalogue (1999 Brooklyn Museum), p. 67, no. 34, as Sunday Morning.

Orcutt, Kimberly. "Sunday Morning." In Making American Taste: Narrative Art for a New Democracy, edited by Barbara Dayer Gallati. New York and London: The New-York Historical Society, in association with D. Giles Ltd, 2011, 2011. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 236–237, as Sunday Morning.