Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
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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
Hills no. 25.1.9
Baur no. 148
Woman at a Window
1872, October 9
Oil on academy board
9 x 12 in. (22.9 x 30.5 cm)
Initialed and dated lower left: E. J., Oct. 9, '72
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References
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. 148, as Woman at a Window.
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Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Woman at a Window, 1872, October 9 (Hills no. 25.1.9)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=327 (accessed on December 2, 2024).