Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager
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Photo: Brooklyn Museum
Not at Home, c.1872–75 (Hills no. 25.1.10). Not at Home pictured in Johnson's studio (center of photograph)
Not at Home pictured in Johnson's studio (center of photograph)
Photo: Reproduced in William Walton, "Eastman Johnson, Painter," Scribner's Magazine, September 1906
25.1 Women Indoors

Johnson’s wife, Elizabeth, no doubt turned his attention to representations of women alone—either in interiors or outside. Such women are often lost in thought and suggest sentient beings with an inner life. In my interviews with descendants of Johnson’s siblings, she is presented as an independent woman. Johnson painted her portrait in which she assumes the posture of a woman who thinks on her own (also see theme 31.3). —PH

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Hills no. 25.1.10
Baur no. 126
Not at Home
Alternate titles: likely Interior; likely Interior of the Artist's House; Not at Home (An Interior of the Artist's House)
c.1872–75
Oil on laminated paperboard
26 7/16 x 22 5/16 in. (67.2 x 56.7 cm)
Signed verso in cursive: E. Johnson
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Record last updated March 22, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Not at Home, c.1872–75 (Hills no. 25.1.10)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=323 (accessed on March 29, 2024).