Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
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14.0 Lily Pond Scenes
Johnson did few landscapes. Of those he did, he seems to have never sent them out on exhibition. Some of them are intimate views of his trips into nature, with sunlight falling on paths that lead through woodland trees or a haze on quiet lakes. None of them are dramatic views of mountains or rivers. He made several of the villages of Nantucket. Some seem to be instances where he painted the backyards of friends or family with a focus on the compositions of angles of planks, stairs, and siding. —PH
Hills no. 14.0.2
Baur no. 100
Boy Fishing
Alternate title: The Fisherman
c.1865
Oil on canvas
9 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. (23.5 x 19.1 cm)
Signed lower left: E. Johnson
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Exhibitions
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Inaugural Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art, June 6–September 20, 1916, no. 29, as The Fisherman.
Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio, A Survey of Nineteenth-Century American Paintings, November 2–December 15, 1959.
The Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, Coshocton, Ohio, American Paintings 1825–1915 From The Cleveland Museum of Art, July 7–November 1, 1979, not numbered.
References
Strahan, Edward, ed. The Art Treasures of America, Being the Choicest Works of Art in the Public and Private Collections of North America. Vol. 8. Philadelphia: George Barrie Publisher, 1879, p. 74, as Boy Fishing.
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. 100, as The Fisherman.
"A Check List: American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in The Cleveland Museum of Art." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art (January 1973), p. 29, no. 114, as The Fisherman (Boy Fishing).
American Paintings 1825–1915 from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Coshocton, OH: Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, 1979, not numbered, illus. on front cover.
Placidi, Kathleen S. "Beyond Bootblacks: The Boat Builder and the Art of John George Brown." Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art (December 1990), pp. 366–82, p. 370 illus. fig. 5, as The Fisherman.
Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993, p. 117 illus.
Hills Examination/Opinion
Examination date(s): 1971-06-09
Examination notes: Small. Dark-green painting. On clear face. Dark green woods behind. Lilies are light-green strokes.
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Record last updated July 28, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Boy Fishing, c.1865 (Hills no. 14.0.2)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=167 (accessed on October 6, 2024).