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20.2 Boys Outdoors
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. 20.2.9
Feather Duster Boy
1880
Oil on board mounted on plywood
24 x 16 in. (61 x 40.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: E. Johnson/1880
Provenance
Private collection, by May 2003
[Sotheby's, November 30, 2005, American Paintings, Drawings & Sculpture including Property from the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations, lot 145 (as Feather Duster Boy)]
Unidentified dealer, New York
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
1880 Brooklyn Art Association
Brooklyn Art Association, Brooklyn, New York, May 17–30, 1880. (Exhibition catalogue: Brooklyn Art Association 1880), no. 138, as Feather Duster Boy.References
Brooklyn Art Association 1880
Spring Exhibition: Catalogue of Paintings. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Art Association, 1880. Exhibition catalogue (1880 Brooklyn Art Association), p. 9, no. 138, as Feather Duster Boy, Price: 650.Douglass 1999
Douglass, Julie M. "Lifetime Exhibition History." In Eastman Johnson: Painting America, by Teresa A. Carbone and Patricia Hills. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. Exhibition catalogue, p. 263, as Feather Duster Boy.Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 2003-05-08
Examination notes: Pencil lines along edge of nostril and upper lip and filtrum. Good eyes and highlight. Scumbling, esp. lower edge. Little flecks represent the feathers. Some crackling—restored.
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Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Feather Duster Boy, 1880 (Hills no. 20.2.9)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=264 (accessed on April 29, 2024).