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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. 39.1.39v
Baur no. 204
Woman Spinning [verso of Self-Portrait]
c.1890–99
White chalk on board
29 3/4 x 22 3/4 in. (75.6 x 57.8 cm)
Description / Remarks
Baur 1940, p. 55, note for the recto, Self-Portrait: "On the back is a very slight sketch in white chalk of a woman at a spinning wheel and the word Rouet ['spinning wheel' in French], also in chalk."
Provenance
Eastman Johnson estate/Mrs. Eastman Johnson, New York, 1906 (by bequest)
Ethel Eastman Johnson Conkling Holden, her daughter (by descent)
Olga Louise Gwendolyn Conkling, her daughter, by 1940 (by descent)
[Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1977]
Private collection, 1982 (by purchase)
[Christie's, June 5, 1997, lot 24 (as Self-Portrait)]
Present whereabouts unknown
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), pp. 55, 69, no. 204.Keywords
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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. "Woman Spinning [verso of Self-Portrait], c.1890–99 (Hills no. 39.1.39v)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1400 (accessed on May 3, 2024).