Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
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20.1 Boys Indoors
Young boys have been a traditional staples of genre painting. To patrons of art during the mid-nineteenth century these youths recalled memories of their own growing years in which innocence was becoming more and more modified by mischievous cunning. —PH
Hills no. 20.1.7
The Post Boy
Alternate titles: possibly The Postboy; possibly The Red Hot Stove; Cold Fingers and Toes
1861
Oil on canvas
10 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (26 x 21 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: E Johnson/1861
Private Collection, Nantucket, MA
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Provenance
Private collection, until c. 1950
Private collection, by 2010 (by descent)
Private Collection, Nantucket, MA (by purchase)
Exhibitions
National Academy of Design, New York, March 20–April 25, 1861. (NAD 1861), no. 315, as The Post Boy.
Century Association, New York, Memorial Exhibition of Eastman Johnson, February 9–13, 1907, [possibly, as The Red Hot Stove].
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, American Paintings and Drawings from Michigan Collections, April 10–May 6, 1962. (Exhibition catalogue: Detroit Institute of Arts 1962), no. 50, as Cold Fingers and Toes, Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Shaye.
References
New York: National Academy of Design, 1861. Exhibition catalogue (1861 NAD), no. 315, as The Post Boy.
"Sketchings: National Academy of Design." The Crayon (New York) 8 (April 1861), p. 94: "Eastman Johnson in The Papers, in the Marseillaise and in The Post Boy shows his powers to great advantage. The last named has all the charm that character and color in a work can express; it is original and complete," as The Post Boy.
American Paintings and Drawings from Michigan Collections. Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1962. Exhibition catalogue (1962 Detroit Institute of Arts), p. 7, no. 50, as Cold Fingers and Toes.
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Keywords
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Record last updated March 24, 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 Post Boy, 1861 (Hills no. 20.1.7)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=246 (accessed on March 28, 2024).