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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. 20.2.10
Feather Duster Boy
Alternate title: The Feather Duster Boy
c.1880
Oil on canvas
22 x 16 in. (55.9 x 40.6 cm)
Neither signed nor dated
Provenance
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, until 1967
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 1967 (acquired from Kennedy Galleries in exchange for the Johnson painting then titled Dorothea Dix, now identified by Hills as Henrietta Desportes Field)
References
Art Quarterly 1969
Art Quarterly 32 (Summer 1969).Hills 1994
Hills, Patricia. "Eastman Johnson: Feather Duster Boy." In Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art, edited by Irene S. Sweetkind. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with the Butler Institute of American Art, 1994.Sweetkind 1994
Sweetkind, Irene S., ed. Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with the Butler Institute of American Art, 1994, Entry on Eastman Johnson's The Feather Duster Boy by Patricia Hills.Related work
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Record last updated July 19, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Feather Duster Boy, c.1880 (Hills no. 20.2.10)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=265 (accessed on May 5, 2024).