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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. 20.1.8
The Early Scholar
Alternate title: Early Schoolboy
1865
Oil on board
17 x 21 in. (43.2 x 53.3 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: E. Johnson/1865.
Description / Remarks
Frick Art Reference Library Photoarchive files, Eastman Johnson, "The Early Scholar," b10779693, accessed April 9, 2021: "The boy wears a blue cap, dark brown jacket, white shirt, and olive-brown trousers. Brown rocker, desks, and floor, dull brownish gray stove and pipe, red glow under stove door. Brownish gray plaster wall in background and a blackboard at upper left. Gray metal lunch pail under bench at right, bluish gray mittens on floor in front of stove, and birch logs at lower left."
Provenance
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, until 1946
John Levy Galleries, New York, 1946
Wildenstein and Company, New York, by 1948
William Poplack, Michigan, until 1962
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1962–1966
Herbert Allen, Sr., 1966 (by purchase)
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
1868 NAD
National Academy of Design, New York, April 15–June 20, 1868. (NAD 1868), no. 261, [possibly, as The Early Scholar].1946 M. Knoedler & Co.
M. Knoedler & Co, New York, Paintings and Drawings by Eastman Johnson, January 7–26, 1946. (Exhibition catalogue: M. Knoedler & Co. 1946), as The Early Scholar, not listed in exhibition catalogue. Traveled to: The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, March 1946 (California Palace 1946).1948 Wildenstein & Co.
Wildenstein & Co, New York, Eastman Johnson, Summer 1948. (Wildenstein 1948), no. 6, as Early Schoolboy.1949 Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science, and Art
Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science, and Art, Los Angeles, Winslow Homer 1836–1910, Eastman Johnson 1824–1906, February 4, 1949–May 7, 1950. (Exhibition catalogue: LACMA 1949), no. 4, as The Early Scholar. Traveled to: Denver Art Museum, Denver, 1949; Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, 1949 (Fine Arts Society of San Diego 1949); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1949 (Fine Arts Society of San Diego 1949); Oklahoma Arts Center, Oklahoma City, 1949 (Fine Arts Society of San Diego 1949); Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 1949 (Fine Arts Society of San Diego 1949); Takoma Art League, Takoma, Washington, 1949 (Fine Arts Society of San Diego 1949); Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, 1949 (Fine Arts Society of San Diego 1949).References
NAD 1868
New York: National Academy of Design, 1868. Exhibition catalogue (1868 NAD), no. 261 [possibly, as The Early Scholar].The Albion 1868
"Fine Arts: Academy of Design." The Albion (New York) 46, no. 20 (May 16, 1868), p. 273 [possibly, as The Early Scholar].M. Knoedler & Co. 1946
Paintings and Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York: M. Knoedler & Co., 1946. Exhibition catalogue (1946 M. Knoedler & Co.), not listed in catalogue, as The Early Scholar.Art News 1948
Art News 47 (Summer 1948), p. 49.Wildenstein 1948
Eastman Johnson. New York: Wildenstein, 1948. Exhibition catalogue (1948 Wildenstein & Co.), no. 6, as Early Schoolboy.Fine Arts Society of San Diego 1949
Winslow Homer 1836–1910; Eastman Johnson 1824–1906. San Diego, CA: Fine Arts Society of San Diego, 1949. Exhibition catalogue (1949 Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science, and Art), n.p., no. 4, as The Early Scholar.Pictures on Exhibit 1966
Pictures on Exhibit (New York) (January 1966).Related work
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Keywords
- Subject matter:
- Stoves »
Record last updated November 30, 2021. 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, 1865 (Hills no. 20.1.8)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=249 (accessed on May 4, 2024).