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[ 26.1 Nantucket Genre—Indoors ]

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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. 26.1.14

Baur no. 70

The New Bonnet

1876

Locale: Nantucket, Massachusetts

Oil on paper board

20 3/4 x 27 in. (52.7 x 68.6 cm)

Signed and dated lower left: E. Johnson/1876

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of Collis P. Huntington, 1900 (25.110.11)

Description / Remarks

Hills, 2021: The brass candlesticks in this painting also appear in Man Reading with Woman Sitting by the Fireplace.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition catalogue, 1926: "In an old-fashioned farm interior an elderly man in his overcoat and top hat sits in a Windsor chair warming his hands before a wide open fireplace. Two young women stand at the right near the door; one, mixing a toddy, admires the newly trimmed bonnet which the other holds up."

Provenance

Collis P. Huntington, New York, until 1900

Mrs. Huntington, his wife, later Mrs. Henry E. Huntington, subject to a life estate in the donor's wife, 1900–1924

Archer M. Huntington, her son, subject to a life estate in the donor's son, which was relinquished, 1924–1925

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1900 (by bequest)

Exhibitions

1876 NAD

National Academy of Design, New York, Fifty-first Annual Exhibition, March 28–May 31, 1876. (NAD 1876a), no. 289, as The New Bonnet.

1935 M. H. de Young Memorial Museum

M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, Exhibition of American Painting, June 7–July 7, 1935, no. 155.

1939 Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824–1906, January 18, 1939–February 26, 1940. (Exhibition catalogue: Baur 1940), no. 70, b/w illus., Pl. XXVII, as The New Bonnet.

1939 Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Life in America: A Special Loan Exhibition of Paintings Held during the Period of the New York World's Fair, April 24–October 29, 1939, no. 222, p. 169, owner The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

1972 Whitney Museum

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition, March 28–May 14, 1972. (Exhibition catalogue: Hills 1972a), no. 77, b/w illus., p. 107, as The New Bonnet. Traveled to: The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, June 7–July 22, 1972; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, August 15–September 30, 1972; Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, October 20–December 3, 1972.

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. 45, color illus., p. 86, as The New Bonnet. 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

NAD 1876b

51st Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design. New York: National Academy of Design, 1876, p. 19, no. 289, as The New Bonnet.

Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1925

Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (June 1925), pp. 142-143, illus.

Metropolitan Museum of Art 1926

Catalogue of Paintings. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1926, p. 181, as The New Bonnet.

Metropolitan Museum of Art 1931

Catalogue of Paintings. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1931, p. 191, as The New Bonnet.

Kistler 1935

Kistler, Aline. "We Are What We Are—." American Magazine of Art (New York) 28, no. 10 (October 1935), p. 615, illus., as The New Bonnet.

Baur 1940

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), pp. 50, 63, no. 70, as The New Bonnet.

Keck 1941

Keck, Sheldon. "A Use of Infra-Red Photography in the Study of Technique." Technical Studies in the Field of the Fine Arts 9, no. 3 (1941), pp. 148–149, 151, fig. 4, fig. 6, illus., as The New Bonnet.

Crosby 1944

Crosby, Everett U. Eastman Johnson at Nantucket: His Paintings and Sketches of Nantucket People and Scenes. Nantucket, MA, 1944, p. 15, C.30, as The New Bonnet.

Hills 1972a

Hills, Patricia. Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1972. Exhibition catalogue (1972 Whitney Museum), p. 107, no. 77, illus., as The New Bonnet.

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. 86, no. 45, as The New Bonnet.

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Record last updated June 2, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "The New Bonnet, 1876 (Hills no. 26.1.14)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=381 (accessed on May 5, 2024).