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Photo: Reproduction in Clarence Cook, Art and Artists of Our Time, 1888
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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. 24.0.1
A Girl Churning
Alternate title: Churning
1868
Oil on panel
21 x 16 in. (53.3 x 40.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: E. Johnson. 68
Description / Remarks
American Art Association sale catalogue, 1892: "A young New-England girl is pounding and pushing at the shaft of an old-fashioned churn, making butter, and casting longing looks towards the window which admits the sunbeams which light her figure and the wall behind her."
Provenance
R. Austin Robertson
[American Art Association, New York, April 7–8, 1892, The Collections of the American Art Association to be Absolutely Sold by Auction to Settle the Estate of the Late R. Austin Robertson, no. 120 (as Churning)]
Elkan Naumberg, April 8, 1892 (by purchase)
Present whereabouts unknown
References
Cook 1888
Cook, Clarence. Art and Artists of Our Time. Vol. 3. New York: Selmar Hess, 1888, opp. p. 264, illus., as A Girl Churning.AAA 1892
Catalogue of the Collections of the American Art Association to be Absolutely Sold by Auction to Settle the Estate of the Late R. Austin Robertson. New York: American Art Association, April 1892. Sale catalogue, p. 71, no. 120, illus., as Churning.Record last updated July 14, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "A Girl Churning, 1868 (Hills no. 24.0.1)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=320 (accessed on May 4, 2024).