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Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager

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10.0 Civil War Themes

Johnson was thirty-six years old when the Civil War began. Although he did not serve in the Union Army, he followed the Union troops in search of subjects that would appeal to a pro-Union audience. He also painted pictures of the homefront. —PH

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Hills no. 10.0.7
Baur no. 90
The Chimney Corner
1862
Oil on academy board
12 x 9 in. (30.5 x 22.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: E. Johnson 62
Description / Remarks

Baur 1940, p. 64: "There is a pencil study for this (no. 448) [New England Kitchen]."

Baur AAA Notebook Y, c. 1938–1941, p. 22: "A boy dressed in ragged old blue military coat and cap and tan trousers sitting in front of a fire place."

Markings
Verso of board: Paris
Provenance
Dr. Alfred M. Desnoes, by 1940
Present whereabouts unknown
References
Baur 1938–41d
Baur, John I. H. Notebook Y. 1938–41. John I. H. Baur papers, 1946–1979, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, p. 22, as The Chimney Corner.
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. 64, no. 90, as The Chimney Corner.
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Record last updated December 29, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "The Chimney Corner, 1862 (Hills no. 10.0.7)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=153 (accessed on April 20, 2024).