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21.1 Girls Indoors
Johnson’s daughter, Ethel, was born in May 1870, and it is not surprising that Johnson would use her (but not exclusively) as a model for the many pictures of young girls in interiors—playing with dolls, warming their hands by a stove, reading, sleeping. Such pictures often include the same furniture, such as the prie dieu (church prayer bench or kneeler) seen in Family Cares and The Tea Party. Because they were genre paintings, not portraits, Johnson freely renders the facial features. Thus, it is not surprising that for paintings done circa 1873, the bodily types of the girls look like three-year-olds; whereas those done circa 1878, look more like eight-years-olds. —PH
Hills no. 21.1.31
Girl by the Stove
Alternate titles: possibly The Red Hot Stove; Study for "Ice Skater/Child Warming Hands in Studio"; Young Woman Near a Stove
c.1879
Oil on board
13 1/4 x 11 5/8 in. (33.7 x 29.5 cm) (irreg.)
Initialed lower right: E.J.
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Markings
Label on verso: Berry-Hill, "Girl by the Stove" (C-7735)
Provenance
Private collection, 1982 (by purchase)
Exhibitions
Century Association, New York, Memorial Exhibition of Eastman Johnson, February 9–13, 1907, [possibly, as The Red Hot Stove].
The Union League Club of New York, New York, Eastman Johnson Retrospective, June 6–July 5, 1974, no. 17.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, American Genre Painting in the Victorian Era: Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, and their Contemporaries, April 8–May 6, 1978. (Exhibition catalogue: Hirschl & Adler Galleries 1978), no. 45, p. 42, as Girl by the Stove.
South Bend Art Center, South Bend, Indiana, American Masterpieces from the Warner Collection, December 9, 1989–February 4, 1990.
Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Drawn from Life: American Genre Paintings from the Birmingham Museum of Art and the Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art, October 29, 2006–January 3, 2007.
References
Tuckerman, Henry T. Book of the American Artists: American Artist Life. New York: James F. Carr, 1967 (reprint), p. 468 [possibly, as Girl by the Stove].
American Genre Painting in the Victorian Era: Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, and their Contemporaries. New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1978. Exhibition catalogue (1978 Hirschl & Adler), p. 42, no. 45 illus.
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. 266 [possibly, as The Red Hot Stove].
Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 2011-04-13
Examination notes: Heavy outlining (graphite or paint) along leg, hands, profile of face, box. Pink ribbons on top of bonnet. Does not seem to be varnished.
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Keywords
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Record last updated October 28, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Girl by the Stove, c.1879 (Hills no. 21.1.31)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=291 (accessed on April 24, 2024).