Catalogue Entry

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”]

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. 100 (as Susan Ray's Kitchen)]

Clifton R. Hall, Princeton, New Jersey, by 1940

Dr. James Graham Leyburn, Martinsburg, West Virginia

John K. McMurray, Addison, Maine, 1993

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1994 (by gift)

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.