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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.
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
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. 101 (as The Other Side of Susan Ray's Kitchen)]
Private collection, until March 14, 1996
[Sotheby's, March 14, 1996, Sale 6817, lot 29 (as The Other Side of Susan Ray's Kitchen)]
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1996 (by purchase)
Exhibitions
1907a Century Association
Century Association, New York, Memorial Exhibition of Eastman Johnson, February 9–13, 1907, as Susan Ray's Kitchen.1999 Brooklyn Museum
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, 2000.2000 Addison Gallery of American Art
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Inside and Out: Scenes of American Life from the Addison Collection, September 26–December 31, 2000.2003 Smith College Museum
Smith College Museum of Art, Inside Nantucket: Eastman Johnson Studies of Island Home Life, April 22–July 20, 2003.2004 Addison Gallery of American Art
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Eye on the Collection: Copley to Hopper, December 21, 2004–June 12, 2005.2005 Addison Gallery of American Art
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Eye on the Collection: West to Hopper, June 17–October 16, 2005.2007a Addison Gallery of American Art
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Mix and Match: A Conversation between Paintings and Works on Paper, January 23–April 8, 2007.2008b Addison Gallery of American Art
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Then and Now, May 10–July 13, 2008.2011 Addison Gallery of American Art
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, 80 @ 80, October 15–December 31, 2011.References
AAA 1907b
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 1944
Crosby, Everett U. Eastman Johnson at Nantucket: His Paintings and Sketches of Nantucket People and Scenes. Nantucket, MA, 1944, C.42.Carbone and Hills 1999
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)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=157 (accessed on May 2, 2025).