Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
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24.0 Adolescent Girls
As Johnson got to know his nieces and also his daughter Ethel during their teen-aged years, he realized that they were not just genteel creatures who read books, but also smart young adults who read newspapers. Of all American artists, Johnson is perhaps the only artist (besides women artists such as Lily Martin Spencer and Mary Cassatt) who shows women reading newspapers. —PH
Hills no. 24.0.6
Interesting News
Alternate titles: possibly Girl Reading on a Sopha; Harpers' [sic] Weekly – – – At Nantucket
1872
Oil on panel
17 1/2 x 22 in. (44.4 x 55.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: E. Johnson/1872
Private collection, East Coast
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Description / Remarks
Hills, 2021: Johnson is unique as a nineteenth-century male American painter in that he painted women reading newspapers.
Provenance
Private collection, East Coast
Exhibitions
Century Association, New York, February 3, 1872, no. 24, [possibly, as Girl Reading on a Sopha].
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition, March 28–May 14, 1972. (Exhibition catalogue: Hills 1972a), no. 69, b/w illus., p. 82, as Interesting News. Traveled to: The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, June 7–July 22, 1972; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, August 15–September 30, 1972; Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, October 20–December 3, 1972.
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, Insights: Selections from San Diego Private Collections, April 23–June 12, 1983.
References
Samuel P. Avery's Collection of Paintings, by Celebrated Foreign Artists. New York: Somerville Art Gallery, April 23–24, 1872. Sale catalogue, p. 39, no. 153, as Harpers' [sic] Weekly – – – At Nantucket.
Arts Magazine 4, no. 4 (February 1969), p. 4 (advertisement) Parke-Bernet Galleries Auction, March 19 and 20, 1969.
Hills, Patricia. Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1972. Exhibition catalogue (1972 Whitney Museum), p. 82, no. 69, illus., as Interesting News.
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. 261 [possibly, as Girl Weaving on a Sofa—incorrect].
Lang, Louis. Art History of the Century Association, 1847–1880. . Century Association Archives Foundation, New York, p. 81, no. 24 [possibly, as Girl reading on a sopha].
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Record last updated February 17, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Interesting News, 1872 (Hills no. 24.0.6)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=315 (accessed on April 19, 2024).