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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 of Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc.
[ 26.1 Nantucket Genre—Indoors ]info
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26.1 Nantucket Genre—Indoors

In June 1869 Johnson married Elizabeth Buckley of Troy, New York, and the following summer he and his wife and their baby, Ethel, went to Nantucket, Massachusetts for the season. Johnson responded enthusiastically to Nantucket, which seemed to be filled with characters and activities that appealed to him, and the couple returned to the island each summer. Beside painting genre scenes of men, women, and children both indoors and outside, Johnson launched a major theme—the cranberry harvest—a time in the fall when the whole community turned out to pick the wild cranberries ripening in the bogs of Nantucket. Johnson made at least eighteen studies before crafting his major painting, The Cranberry Harvest, which was exhibited at the National Academy of Design in 1880. —PH

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Hills no. 26.1.19
Study for The Reprimand
Alternate title: The Reprimand
c.1880
Locale: Nantucket, Massachusetts
Oil on board
17 1/2 x 11 in. (44.4 x 27.9 cm)
Neither signed nor dated
Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc.
Description / Remarks

Hills, 2021: The subject is Captain Charles Myrick, who appears in several other Nantucket pictures by Johnson.

Provenance
Bernard Danenberg Galleries, New York, by February 1971
Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc., New York, c. 1972
Exhibitions
1976 Traveling Exhibition Service, Smithsonian Institution
Traveling Exhibition Service, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., American Art in the Making: Preparatory Studies for Masterpieces of American Painting, 1800–1900, 1976–77. (Exhibition catalogue: Sellin 1977).
References
Magazine Antiques 1976b
Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc. advertisement. The Magazine Antiques (New York) 110 (October 1976), Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc. advertisement.
Sellin 1977
Sellin, David. American Art in the Making: Preparatory Studies for Masterpieces of American Painting, 1800–1900. Washington, DC: Published for the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1977. Exhibition catalogue (1976 Traveling Exhibition Service, Smithsonian Institution), p. 44, fig. 64.
Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 1971-02-12
Examination notes: Whitish background—lead white—shows through along left side of woman's face; also shows through hat. Gray brown dress—brown hat, geranium red flowers. Myrick sitting behind. Well modeled face. Strong outlines on feet and coat. Good expression on both faces. White over brown and then brown over it.
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Myrick, Charles C.
Biography:

Charles C. Myrick (1797–1883). Captain of the Nantucket coastal trading ship Abel Hoyt, 1854.

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Record last updated December 6, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Study for The Reprimand, c.1880 (Hills no. 26.1.19)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=377 (accessed on May 3, 2024).