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12.0 Interiors—No or Slight Figures
Johnson often painted interiors without people, no doubt studies from real life. He used such oil studies to provide context for genre scenes. Objects resting on mantles, such as ceramic parrots or earthenware jars, frequently reappear, rearranged in interior genre scenes. —PH
Hills no. 12.0.6
Baur no. 67 / 1907 Sale no. 100
Susan Ray's Kitchen
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy title: Susan Ray's Kitchen—Nantucket
Alternate titles: Nantucket Interior; Susan Ray Coming into her Kitchen
1875, September 24
Oil on paper board
13 5/16 x 22 1/2 in. (33.8 x 57.2 cm)
Initialed and dated lower right: E.J./Sept. 24, '75
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1907 Estate Sale 
No. 100: "This interior, sparsely furnished and simply constructed, has a suggestive air of old-fashioned comfort about it, notwithstanding the absence of any luxuries. It is lighted from two windows and a door on the left, and emerging from a cupboard at the back is seen the figure of the tidy housewife herself, carrying an earthen pan, apparently full of milk. On the right a steep staircase winds around to story above, and near the shelf of the rude fireplace, in which is seen an iron crane overhanging a smouldering fire on the hearth, a few herbs hang upon a beam against the plastered wall."
"Signed at the lower right, E. J., Sept. 24, ’75.
Height, 13 inches; length, 22 ½ inches."
[Annotation: “35.00”]
"Signed at the lower right, E. J., Sept. 24, ’75.
Height, 13 inches; length, 22 ½ inches."
[Annotation: “35.00”]
Provenance
Exhibitions
Century Association, New York, Memorial Exhibition of Eastman Johnson, February 9–13, 1907, as Susan Ray Coming into her Kitchen.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Eastman Johnson, September 5–October 15, 1995.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, 65 Years, Addison Gallery of American Art, April 13–July 31, 1996.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, The Constructed Photograph: Jo Babcock, Gillian Brown, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, and Doug Prince, January 17–March 23, 1997.
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, Eastman Johnson: Painting America, October 29, 1999–February 6, 2000. (Exhibition catalogue: Carbone and Hills 1999), no. 42, as Susan Ray's Kitchen—Nantucket. Traveled to: San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, San Diego, February 25–May 21, 2000; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, June 8–September 10, 2000.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Inside and Out: Scenes of American Life from the Addison Collection, September 26–December 31, 2000.
Smith College Museum of Art, Inside Nantucket: Eastman Johnson Studies of Island Home Life, April 22–July 20, 2003.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Eye on the Collection: Copley to Hopper, December 21, 2004–June 12, 2005.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Eye on the Collection: West to Hopper, June 17–October 16, 2005.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Mix and Match: A Conversation between Paintings and Works on Paper, January 23–April 8, 2007.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Then and Now, May 10–July 13, 2008.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, 80 @ 80, October 15–December 31, 2011.
References
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. 100, as Susan Ray's 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. 67, as Nantucket Interior.
Crosby, Everett U. Eastman Johnson at Nantucket: His Paintings and Sketches of Nantucket People and Scenes. Nantucket, MA, 1944, pp. 17, 55, C.41, illus., as Susan Ray's 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. 82, no. 42, as Susan Ray's Kitchen—Nantucket.
Record last updated March 9, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Susan Ray's Kitchen, 1875, September 24 (Hills no. 12.0.6)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=156 (accessed on September 8, 2024).