Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné

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

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[ 39.1 U.S. Figure & Landscape Sketches ]

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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

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Hills no. 39.1.29v

Standing Man Lunging Left [verso of Kitty Pierson]

c.1876

Likely graphite

19 1/8 x 14 1/2 in. (48.6 x 36.8 cm)

Private collection, Boston

Recto: Kitty Pierson, 1876 (Hills no. 31.5.11r)

Markings

Inscribed upper right, Vose Galleries information: #20605 [struck through] / 19 x 14 1/2 / #25154 / 19 x 14 1/2

Labels

Printed label, affixed with painter's tape, upper left: VG 8-25-1-16

Provenance

Private collection, Hingham, Massachusetts, c. December 1961

Vose Galleries, Boston, February 1962

Maxim Karolik, March 1, 1962, until 1964 (by purchase)

[Parke-Bernet Galleries, Newport, Rhode Island, June 17-19, 1964, Auction of the Estate of the Late Maxim Karolik, lot 228]

Private dealer, Longmeadow, Massachusetts, 1964

H. James Stone and Estate, Brockton, Massachusetts, until June 1977 (by purchase)

[Vose Galleries, Boston, June 1977]

Private collection, Virginia, July 1977 (by purchase)

[Vose Galleries, Boston, July 2016]

Private collection, Boston, December 11, 2017 (by purchase)

Hills Examination / Opinion

Examination date(s): June 14, 2010; March 28, 2019

Examination notes: March 28, 2019: Lunging figure; face at UL.

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. "Standing Man Lunging Left [verso of Kitty Pierson], c.1876 (Hills no. 39.1.29v)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1425 (accessed on May 18, 2024).