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Photo: Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute / Art Resource, NY
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Photo: Patricia Hills
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25.2 Women Outdoors
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. 25.2.5
The Pet Lamb
Alternate title: possibly Feeding the Lamb
1873
Oil on cardboard
22 x 26 1/2 in. (55.9 x 67.3 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: E. Johnson/1873
Provenance
Henry Lloyd ("Harry") White, Indiana, Pennsylvania
Katheryn McConnell Hitchcock Penhallow, his granddaughter
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Utica, New York, 1976 (by purchase)
Exhibitions
1873 Cincinnati Industrial Exposition
Cincinnati Industrial Exposition, Cincinnati, 1873. (Cincinnati Industrial Exposition 1873), no. 187, [possibly, as Feeding the Lamb].1873d Century Association
Century Association, New York, May 1873, no. 26, [possibly, as The Pet Lamb].References
Cincinnati Industrial Exposition 1873
Cincinnati Industrial Exposition. Exhibition of Paintings, Engravings, Drawing, Aquarelles, and Works of Household Art in the Cincinnati Industrial Exposition. Cincinnati, OH: Robert Clarke & Co., 1873. Exhibition catalogue (1873 Cincinnati Industrial Exposition), [possibly, as Feeding the Lamb].Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 2018-06-26
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Keywords
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- Sheep »
Record last updated August 18, 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 Pet Lamb, 1873 (Hills no. 25.2.5)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=342 (accessed on April 20, 2024).