Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné

Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager

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[ 15.0 Landscapes, 1858–1879 ]

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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

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Hills no. 15.0.13

1907 Sale no. 139

The Peaceful Village

Alternate title: Peaceful Village

c.1871–80

Oil

19 x 30 in. (48.3 x 76.2 cm)

Initialed lower left: E. J.

Present whereabouts unknown

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.

1907 Estate Sale

No. 139: "A study of a characteristic New England village, presumably in Nantucket, showing wooden cottages surrounded by trees, all in the full blaze of the noonday sun. The corner of a corn patch occupies the foreground on the left, and on the right the trees overhanging the farmhouses rise out of the picture."
"Signed at the lower right, E. J.
Height, 19 inches; length, 30 inches."
[Annotation: “37.50”]

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. 139 (as The Peaceful Village)]

Present whereabouts unknown

Exhibitions

1907a Century Association

Century Association, New York, Memorial Exhibition of Eastman Johnson, February 9–13, 1907, as Peaceful Village.

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. 139, as The Peaceful Village.

Crosby 1944

Crosby, Everett U. Eastman Johnson at Nantucket: His Paintings and Sketches of Nantucket People and Scenes. Nantucket, MA, 1944, p. 18, C.44, as The Peaceful Village.

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 Peaceful Village, c.1871–80 (Hills no. 15.0.13)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=214 (accessed on May 5, 2024).