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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
Hills no. 24.0.11
Baur no. 136
The Reverie
c.1872–73
Oil on canvas
27 x 22 1/2 in. (68.6 x 57.2 cm)
Neither signed nor dated
Description / Remarks
Hills 2021: Like the figure in Girl at the Window, the subject seems to be an adolescent girl.
Provenance
William Browne Cogswell, Syracuse, New York, husband of the artist's niece, Mary Naomi Johnson Cogswell (daughter of the artist's brother Reuben)
Cora Browning Cogswell, his wife, 1921 (by bequest)
Florence Pearl and Elizabeth C. Browning, Syracuse, New York, her sisters, 1936 (by bequest)
Present whereabouts unknown
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. 66, no. 136, as The Reverie.Related work
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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. "The Reverie, c.1872–73 (Hills no. 24.0.11)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=326 (accessed on May 8, 2024).