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. 25.1.12
Woman in White Dress
Alternate title: Woman in a White Dress
c.1872–80
Oil on paperboard
22 3/8 x 14 in. (56.8 x 35.6 cm)
Initialed lower right: E. J.
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Description / Remarks
Hirschl & Adler, A Gallery Collects, 1977: "A sofa of identical design appears in Johnson's famous painting Not at Home (The Brooklyn Museum)."
Provenance
Baron M. L. van Reigersberg Versluys, London, great-grandson of the artist, by 1977 (by descent)
Exhibitions
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, A Gallery Collects, October 19–November 19, 1977. (Exhibition catalogue: Hirschl & Adler Galleries 1977), no. 35, illus., as Woman in White Dress.
M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, Eastman Johnson: Seven Paintings by the Highly Regarded Nineteenth-Century American Artist, December 1979–January 1980. (M. H. de Young Memorial Museum 1979), as Woman in White Dress.
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, Eastman Johnson: Painting America, October 29, 1999–February 6, 2000. (Exhibition catalogue: Carbone and Hills 1999), no. 38, color illus., p. 75, as Woman in a White Dress. Traveled to: San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, San Diego, February 25–May 21, 2000; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, June 8–September 10, 2000.
References
A Gallery Collects. New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1977. Exhibition catalogue (1977 Hirschl & Adler), no. 35, illus., as Woman in White Dress.
M. H. de Young Memorial Museum. Eastman Johnson: Seven Paintings by the Highly Regarded Nineteenth Century American Artist. San Francisco: M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, 1979. Exhibition catalogue (1979 M. H. de Young Memorial Museum), as Woman in White Dress.
Carbone, Teresa A., and Patricia Hills. Eastman Johnson: Painting America. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. Exhibition catalogue (1999 Brooklyn Museum), p. 75, no. 38, as Woman in a White Dress.
Record last updated July 5, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Woman in White Dress, c.1872–80 (Hills no. 25.1.12)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=333 (accessed on April 19, 2024).