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Photo: DuMouchelles Art Galleries, Detroit, MI
The Post Boy, 1861 (Hills no. 20.1.7). Frame
Frame
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The Post Boy, 1861 (Hills no. 20.1.7). Overall, partial frame
Overall, partial frame
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The Post Boy, 1861 (Hills no. 20.1.7). Detail
Detail
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The Post Boy, 1861 (Hills no. 20.1.7). Inscription
Inscription
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The Post Boy, 1861 (Hills no. 20.1.7). Verso
Verso
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The Post Boy, 1861 (Hills no. 20.1.7). Verso detail
Verso detail
Photo: DuMouchelles Art Galleries, Detroit, MI
The Post Boy, 1861 (Hills no. 20.1.7). Verso detail
Verso detail
Photo: DuMouchelles Art Galleries, Detroit, MI
The Post Boy, 1861 (Hills no. 20.1.7). Verso detail
Verso detail
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The Post Boy, 1861 (Hills no. 20.1.7). Verso with backing board
Verso with backing board
Photo: DuMouchelles Art Galleries, Detroit, MI
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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

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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
Provenance
Private collection, until c. 1950
Possibly Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, c. 1950
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Shaye, c. 1950 (by purchase)
Private collection, by 2010 (by descent)
[DuMouchelles Art Galleries, Detroit, November 14, 2010, lot 112015 (as Cold Fingers and Toes)]
Thomas Colville Fine Art, Guilford, Connecticut, by 2012
Private Collection, Nantucket, MA (by purchase)
Exhibitions
1861 NAD
National Academy of Design, New York, March 20–April 25, 1861. (NAD 1861), no. 315, as The Post Boy.
1907a Century Association
Century Association, New York, Memorial Exhibition of Eastman Johnson, February 9–13, 1907, [possibly, as The Red Hot Stove].
1962 Detroit Institute of Arts
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
NAD 1861
New York: National Academy of Design, 1861. Exhibition catalogue (1861 NAD), no. 315, as The Post Boy.
The Crayon 1861
"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.
Detroit Institute of Arts 1962
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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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 April 27, 2024).