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Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager

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Photo: Courtesy the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
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. 25.1.12
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.
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)
[Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1977]
John D. Rockefeller 3rd and Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller, New York, 1977–1979
de Young Museum - Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, April 5, 1979
Exhibitions
1977 Hirschl & Adler
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.
1979 M. H. de Young Memorial Museum
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.
1999 Brooklyn Museum
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
Hirschl & Adler Galleries 1977
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 1979
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 and Hills 1999
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 March 29, 2024).