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Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager

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Patricia Hills, taken of an image in the Brooklyn Museum Archives
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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

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Hills no. 24.0.5
Baur no. 108a
Girl Reading
Alternate title: possibly Girl Reading on a Sopha
1872
Oil on canvas
15 1/2 x 19 1/2 in. (39.4 x 49.5 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: E. Johnson —1872
Present whereabouts unknown
Provenance
H. J. Richardson, by 1940
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
1872b Century Association
Century Association, New York, February 3, 1872, no. 24, [possibly, as Girl Reading on a Sopha].
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. 65, no. 108a, as Girl Reading.
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. 261 [possibly, as Girl Weaving on a Sofa—incorrect].
Lang n.d.
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].
Record last updated July 29, 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 Reading, 1872 (Hills no. 24.0.5)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=316 (accessed on April 19, 2024).