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. 39.1.1v

Baur no. 370

Woman's Torso [verso of Old Woman]

c.1844

Locale: Maine

Black chalk on paper

13 7/16 x 10 11/16 in. (34.1 x 27.1 cm)

Inscribed upper right: 79 ys 23 May 1844 LG 70 YS 19th February 1844

Brooklyn Museum, New York, Carll H. de Silver Fund (32.1717.2)

Recto: Old Woman, 1844, July (Hills no. 43.4.2r)

Description / Remarks

Baur 1940, p. 77, note for the recto, Old Woman: "There is a rough sketch of a woman's torso on the back."

Provenance

Victor D. Spark, New York, until 1932

Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1932 (by purchase)

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), p. 77, no. 370.

Hills Examination / Opinion

Examination date(s): September 17, 2019

Record last updated January 19, 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's Torso [verso of Old Woman], c.1844 (Hills no. 39.1.1v)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1429 (accessed on April 29, 2024).