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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. 12.0.7
1907 Sale no. 101
The Other Side of Susan Ray's Kitchen
Alternate titles: Susan Ray's Kitchen; The Other Side of Susan Ray's Kitchen—Nantucket
c.1875
Locale: Nantucket, Massachusetts
Oil on board
13 1/4 x 22 3/4 in. (33.7 x 57.8 cm)
Initialed lower left: E.J.
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Description / Remarks
Hills, 2022: Although John I. H. Baur owned and annotated a copy of the catalogue of Johnson's 1907 Estate Sale, he did not include this work in his own 1940 catalogue listing; he must have obtained it after publication.
MacGibeny, 2021: The kitchen is similar to that in Sunday Morning, a collaboration between Johnson and Worthington Whittredge.
1907 Estate Sale 
No. 101: "The light from a window on the right, which is partly shaded by a muslin curtain, floods the rude but neatly kept interior with a warm glow, which fills the shadows with luminous reflections. Underneath the window a Windsor shair stands beside a small table, and in the background, against a wooden partition, is a small walnut side table with cabriole legs, and above it an oblong mirror with a wooden frame. On the left is seen the corner of a broad fireplace with a narrow shelf above and a brick hearth."
"Signed at the lower left, E. J.
Height, 13 inches; length, 23 inches"
[Annotation: “57.50”]
"Signed at the lower left, E. J.
Height, 13 inches; length, 23 inches"
[Annotation: “57.50”]
Markings
No marks on verso
Provenance
Private collection, until March 14, 1996
Exhibitions
Century Association, New York, Memorial Exhibition of Eastman Johnson, February 9–13, 1907, as Susan Ray's Kitchen.
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, Eastman Johnson: Painting America, October 29, 1999–February 6, 2000. (Exhibition catalogue: Carbone and Hills 1999), no. 43, as The Other Side of 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. 101, as The Other Side of Susan Ray's Kitchen.
Crosby, Everett U. Eastman Johnson at Nantucket: His Paintings and Sketches of Nantucket People and Scenes. Nantucket, MA, 1944, C.42.
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. 83, no. 43, as The Other Side of Susan Ray's Kitchen—Nantucket.
Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 1996-03-09
Examination notes: Thinly painted.
Record last updated April 7, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "The Other Side of Susan Ray's Kitchen, c.1875 (Hills no. 12.0.7)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=157 (accessed on April 25, 2024).