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15.0 Landscapes, 1858–1879
Johnson did few landscapes. Of those he did, he seems never to have sent them out on exhibition. The first landscapes were done early on in his European sojourn. Upon returning to the United States he painted a few landscape scenes around Mount Vernon and also views of the settlements around Lake Superior where he traveled in 1856. Later, in the 1860s, he made intimate views on his trips into nature, probably done with men friends in the summers. The few that exist show sunlight falling on paths that lead through woodland trees or suggest a haze on quiet lakes. None of them are dramatic views of mountains or rivers. —PH
Hills no. 15.0.3
Baur no. 141 / 1907 Sale no. 48
Sunlight and Shadow in the Catskills
Alternate title: Sunlight and Shadow
c.1860–69
Oil on canvas
13 x 22 in. (33 x 55.9 cm)
Initialed lower right: E. J. [according to 1907 Estate Sale catalogue] or lower left: E. J. [according to Baur 1940]
1907 Estate Sale 
No. 48: "In the foreground a huge moss-covered bowlder [sic] stands among the saplings and underbrush alongside a narrow woodland path which winds around across the foreground and curves away to the left to a sunlit passage in the middle distance, where bracken flourishes abundantly in a marshy spot under the trees. A small slender hemlock grows beside a tall stump near the bowlder in the foreground, and, with the exception of a small spot in the upper left, the sky is completely obscured by the foliage of the trees."
"Signed at the lower right, E. J.
Height, 13 inches; length, 22 inches"
[Annotation: “27.50 / Cogswell"]
"Signed at the lower right, E. J.
Height, 13 inches; length, 22 inches"
[Annotation: “27.50 / Cogswell"]
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. 48 (as Sunlight and Shadow in the Catskills)]
William Browne Cogswell, Syracuse, New York, husband of the artist's niece, Mary Naomi Johnson Cogswell (daughter of the artist's brother Reuben), February 26, 1907 (by purchase)
Cora Browning Cogswell, his wife, 1921 (by bequest)
Florence Pearl and Elizabeth C. Browning, Syracuse, New York, 1936 (by bequest)
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
1907a Century Association
Century Association, New York, Memorial Exhibition of Eastman Johnson, February 9–13, 1907, as Sunlight and Shadow.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. 48, as Sunlight and Shadow in the Catskills.Baur 1940
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), p. 66, no. 141, as Sunlight and Shadow in the Catskills.Keywords
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Record last updated November 22, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Sunlight and Shadow in the Catskills, c.1860–69 (Hills no. 15.0.3)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=212 (accessed on April 28, 2024).