Eastman Johnson married Elizabeth Williams Buckley of Troy, New York, in Troy in June 1869. In July, he painted three pictures in the tourist destination of Murray Bay (now known as La Malbaie), Quebec, Canada, suggesting that the newlyweds had traveled northwest for their honeymoon. It is significant, and indicative of Johnson's interests, that the paintings represent First Nations Peoples and their homes, rather than the people or landscapes of the resort area. —AM
Hills, 2021: An early twentieth-century audience that did not have tribal affiliations, such as those likely to read the 1907 Estate Sale catalogue, would have considered non-Native clothing to have been “civilized,” whereas Native clothing would have been considered “not civilized.”
"Signed at the lower left, E. J.
Height, 14 inches; length, 17 inches"
[Annotation: “90.00 / Cogswell”]
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