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Photo: Cheekwood Estate & Gardens
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19.0 Children and Artisans
The artisan teaching or showing his skills to children is a common theme in both European and American genre painting. The passing of knowledge from generation to generation had great appeal to those interested in the stability of community. —PH
Hills no. 19.0.3
Study for "The Blacksmith Shop"
Alternate titles: possibly The Blacksmith; The Blacksmith Shop
c.1863
Oil on Masonite
18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm)
Unsigned
Description / Remarks
MacGibeny, 2021: According to the obituary of Solomon R. Newman of Milford, Pennsylvania, published in The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 3, 1879, Newman had been a blacksmith and his "quaint establishment" had been Johnson's subject.
Provenance
Douglas John Connah, Boston and New York
John Ferris Connah, New York
[Sotheby's, April 20, 1979, Sale 4236, lot 58 (as The Blacksmith Shop)]
Walter G. Knestrick, until December 8, 1992
Cheekwood Estate & Gardens, Nashville, Tennessee, December 8, 1992 (by gift)
Exhibitions
1864 Palmer's Sculpture
Palmer's Sculpture, Albany, New York, February 22, 1864, no. 101, [possibly, as The Blacksmith].References
Philadelphia Inquirer 1879
"Obituary Notes." The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 3, 1879, p. 4.Related work
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Record last updated September 5, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Study for "The Blacksmith Shop", c.1863 (Hills no. 19.0.3)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=162 (accessed on May 5, 2024).