Catalogue Entry

No. 115: "In a broad, open fireplace, with a heavy timber lintel, a small iron kettle hangs from a trammel over a fire built in a small stone enclosure on a hearth. In a small sunlit window on the left, high up in the wall, stands a bottle with geraniums and various articles of domestic use, and on the fireplace beam is a broken mirror, a bottle or two and other characteristic objects. The old wooden floor is split and broken, and the stone hearth itself has crumbled with the heat. An empty chair, with broken back and low arms, stands in the corner of the fireplace near the small fire."
"Signed at the lower right, E. J.
Height, 17 inches; length, 21 ½ inches."
[Annotation: “85.00 / Cogswell”]

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

[The artist's estate sale, American Art Association, New York, February 26–27, 1907, no. 115 (as The New England Kitchen)]

William Browne Cogswell, Syracuse, New York, husband of the artist's niece, Mary Naomi Johnson Cogswell (daughter of the artist's brother Reuben), February 27, 1907 (by purchase)

Cora Browning Cogswell, his wife, 1921 (by bequest)

Florence Pearl and Elizabeth C. Browning, Syracuse, New York, 1936 (by bequest)

[Kende Galleries, New York, January 7, 1943, Kende Galleries, New York, January 7, 1943, Paintings: American, English and European Schools from the Collection of the Late Leon Hirsch, Property of Mrs. Frederic J. Merrick, and from other sources, no. 20 (as New England Kitchen)]

Private collection, East Haddam, Connecticut

Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, until 1969

Mr. and Mrs. R. Philip Hanes, Jr., January 28, 1969 until at least 1999 (by purchase)

Sotheby's, December 2, 2010, lot 57 (as New England Kitchen); did not sell

[Sotheby's, April 5, 2012, Sale 8828, Property from the Collection of Philip and Charlotte Hanes, lot 45 (as New England Kitchen)]

Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, April 5, 2012

Private collection, after April 5, 2012 (by purchase)

Catalogue of Finished Pictures, Studies, and Drawings by the Late Eastman Johnson, N.A. New York: American Art Association, February 1907. Sale catalogue, n.p., no. 115, as The New England Kitchen.

Catalogue of an Exhibition of Charcoal Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1920. Exhibition catalogue (1920 Kennedy Galleries), p. 13, addendum “Paintings by Eastman Johnson" [possibly, as New England Kitchen].

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), no. 125, p. 65, as The New England Kitchen.

Paintings: American, English and European Schools from the Collection of the Late Leon Hirsch, Property of Mrs. Frederic J. Merrick, and from Other Sources. New York: Kende Galleries, January 7, 1943. Sale catalogue, p. 18, no. 20, illus., as New England Kitchen, "Signed at lower right, E. J. Canvas: 21 x 26 inches," [Note that although the support and dimensions do not match those of this painting, the description and the illustration printed in the catalogue do.]

Crosby, Everett U. Eastman Johnson at Nantucket: His Paintings and Sketches of Nantucket People and Scenes. Nantucket, MA, 1944, C.58; p. 19.

Hills, Patricia. Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1972. Exhibition catalogue (1972 Whitney Museum); (1972 Whitney Museum), p. 37; no. 41, illus., as New England Kitchen.

Carbone, Teresa A., and Patricia Hills. Eastman Johnson: Painting America. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. Exhibition catalogue (1999 Brooklyn Museum), p. 170, fig. 71, as The New England Kitchen.