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21.2 Girls Outdoors
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. 21.2.2
Baur no. 101a
Gathering Flowers
Alternate titles: possibly Girl with Flowers; possibly The Little Flower Girl; possibly The Little Flower-Girl
c.1862–79
Oil on academy board
14 1/2 x 12 1/4 in. (36.8 x 31.1 cm)
Signed lower right: E. Johnson
Provenance
Possibly E. C. Moore, by 1864
Possibly Moore's Art Rooms, New York, 1874 (as The Little Flower-Girl)
Possibly J. Y. Culyer, by 1875
Joseph Saymon, by 1940
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
1864 Yonkers Sanitary Fair
Yonkers Sanitary Fair, Yonkers, New York, February 15, 1864, no. 16, [possibly, as Girl with Flowers].1874 Moore's Art Rooms
Moore's Art Rooms, New York, 1874, [possibly, as The Little Flower-Girl].1875 Brooklyn Art Association
Brooklyn Art Association, Brooklyn, New York, November 29–December 11, 1875, no. 146, [possibly, as The Little Flower Girl], owner J. Y. Culyer.References
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), p. 64, no. 101a, as Gathering Flowers.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, pp. 260–61 (as Girl with Flowers and The Little Flower Girl).Keywords
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Record last updated July 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. "Gathering Flowers, c.1862–79 (Hills no. 21.2.2)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=298 (accessed on April 26, 2024).