Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné

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

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Photo: Reproduced in Rains Galleries sale catalogue, 1936

[ 45.1 U.S. Later Portrait Drawings, Men ]

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45.1 U.S. Later Portrait Drawings, Men

When Johnson returned from Europe late in 1855 and moved in with his family in Washington, D.C., he began receiving portrait commissions. Like those done earlier, Johnson generally used charcoal (named in some records as black chalk) with touches of white and created a strong chiaroscuro for his sitters. Gradually he moved away from the strong chiaroscuro style he had been using, and his later portraits tend to be sketchier (as was the taste in art at the time) but no less professional. He used pastel to bring in color in some of these portraits. —PH

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Hills no. 45.1.16

Baur no. 318

Benjamin Harrison

Alternate titles: Benjamin Harrison, President of the U. S.; Portrait of Benjamin Harrison

c.1895

Pastel on paper

24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm)

Present whereabouts unknown

Provenance

Likely Eastman Johnson estate/Mrs. Eastman Johnson, New York, 1906 (by bequest)

Albert Rosenthal, New Hope, Pennsylvania, by 1923 (likely by purchase from Mrs. Johnson in 1915)

Findlay Galleries, New York

Cornelius Michaelsen, Esq., by 1936

[Rains Auction Rooms Inc., New York, April 16, 1936, Rare American Historical Paintings Collected by Cornelius Michaelsen, Esq., lot 34]

Present whereabouts unknown

Exhibitions

1920 Kennedy Galleries

Kennedy Galleries, New York, Charcoal Drawings of Eminent Americans by Eastman Johnson, June 1920. (Exhibition catalogue: Kennedy Galleries 1920), no. 16, or no. 17, as Benjamin Harrison.

1937 Frazier Gallery

Frazier Gallery, New York, Eastman Johnson 1824–1906: Forerunner of Homer and Eakins, September–October 1937. (Hirschl 1937); (Frazier Gallery 1937a), no. 23, as Portrait of Benjamin Harrison.

References

Kennedy Galleries 1920

Catalogue of an Exhibition of Charcoal Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1920. Exhibition catalogue (1920 Kennedy Galleries), p. 6, no. 16 or no. 17, as Benjamin Harrison.

Bolton 1923

Bolton, Theodore. Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayon. New York: F. F. Sherman, 1923, p. 39, no. 12.

Rains Auction Rooms 1936

Rare American Historical Paintings Collected by Cornelius Michaelsen, Esq. New York: Rains Auction Rooms, April 16, 1936. Sale catalogue, p. 32, no. 34, illus., as Benjamin Harrison, President of the U. S.

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), p. 74, no. 318, as Benjamin Harrison.

Sitter Biography

Sitter: Harrison, Benjamin

Biography:

Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901). Twenty-third president of the United States, 1889–1893.

White, Terry James. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1967–.

Harrison, Benjamin

Keywords

Portrait pose:
- Bust length »
- Portrait »
Occupations:
- Presidents of the United States »

Record last updated March 10, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Benjamin Harrison, c.1895 (Hills no. 45.1.16)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1428 (accessed on April 27, 2024).