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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. 20.1.9
Baur no. 95
The Early Scholar
c.1865
Oil on academy board on canvas
17 x 21 1/8 in. (43.2 x 53.7 cm)
Initialed lower left: E.J.
Provenance
F. (likely Frank) Reside
[Silo's Galleries, New York, February 21, 1931, no. 274]
Chester Dale, New York, by May 1937
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1963 (by bequest)
Exhibitions
1937a Union League Club of New York
The Union League Club of New York, New York, An Exhibition of American Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, 1937, no. 24, lent by Chester Dale Collection.1939 Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824–1906, January 18, 1939–February 26, 1940. (Exhibition catalogue: Baur 1940), no. 95, as The Early Scholar.1965 National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., The Chester Dale Bequest, May 6–August 18, 1965, not numbered, as The Early Scholar.References
Union League Club of New York 1937
An Exhibition of American paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. New York: Union League Club of New York, 1937, no. 24, illus.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), pp. 40, 64, no. 95, as The Early Scholar.Lane 1940
Lane, James W. "The Brown Decades Seen by Eastman Johnson." Art News 38 (February 3, 1940), 20.Christian Science Monitor 1948
Christian Science Monitor (May 17, 1948).National Gallery of Art 1965
Paintings Other than French in the Chester Dale Collection. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1965, p. 36 (repro.)National Gallery of Art 1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1970, p. 74 (repro.)National Gallery of Art 1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1980, p. 184 (repro).Wilmerding 1980
Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1980, p. 72 (repro).Williams 1981
Williams, William James. A Heritage of American Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. Maplewood, NJ: Hammond, 1981, p. 148-149 (repro).Link 1987
Link, William A. "'Rough Times': Rural Education in Late-Nineteenth-Century Virginia." Virginia Cavalcade 37 (Summer 1987), p. 21 (color repro.)Wilmerding 1988
Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Rev. ed. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1988, p. 82 (repro.)National Gallery of Art 1992
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1992, p. 212 (repro.)Southgate 1997
Southgate, M. Therese. The Art of JAMA: One Hundred Covers and Essays from the Journal of the American Medical Association. St. Louis. St. Louis, MO: Mosby, 1997, pp. 54-55 (color repro).Kelly 1998
Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1998, pp. 373-376 (color repro).Related work
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Record last updated February 28, 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 Early Scholar, c.1865 (Hills no. 20.1.9)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=248 (accessed on April 27, 2024).