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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
Hills no. 26.1.15
1907 Sale no. 143
City People in Country Quarters
Alternate title: City People and Country Quarters
1877
Locale: Nantucket, Massachusetts
Oil
21 1/2 x 40 in. (54.6 x 101.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: E. Johnson, 1877
Description / Remarks
Hills, 2022: Although John I. H. Baur owned and annotated a copy of the catalogue of Johnson's 1907 Estate Sale, he did not include this work in his own 1940 catalogue listing; he must have obtained it after publication.
1907 Estate Sale 
No. 143: "A city family, who evidently have taken up their quarters for the season in a farmhouse, are making the best of their surroundings. The kitchen stove, which has been temporarily installed near the old fireplace, has apparently failed to draw, and the lady from the city, dressed in a loose blue wrapper, has been summoned by the farmer to give him the benefit of her experience. She leans over the stove and simply opens the damper, thus proving her superior knowledge. Her husband and children are seen in the doorway of an adjoining room, and the mother is in earnest conversation with the farmer’s wife."
"Signed at the lower left, E. Johnson, 1877.
Height, 21 ½ inches; length, 40 inches."
[Annotation: “75.00”]
"Signed at the lower left, E. Johnson, 1877.
Height, 21 ½ inches; length, 40 inches."
[Annotation: “75.00”]
Provenance
Eastman Johnson estate/Mrs. Eastman Johnson, New York, 1906 (by bequest)
[The artist's estate sale, American Art Association, New York, February 26–27, 1907, no. 143 (as City People in Country Quarters)]
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
1876e Century Association
Century Association, New York, December 1876, no. 7, as City People and Country Quarters.1877b NAD
National Academy of Design, New York, Annual Exhibition, April 3–June 2, 1877. (NAD 1877b); (NAD 1877c), no. 463, owner Eastman Johnson.1907a Century Association
Century Association, New York, Memorial Exhibition of Eastman Johnson, February 9–13, 1907, as City People in Country Quarters.References
New York Times 1877
"The Academy of Design: A Morning View of the Pictures." New York Times, April 13, 1877, p. 2, as City People in Country Quarters.Art Journal 1877b
"The Academy Exhibition." The Art Journal 3 (January 1, 1877), p. 106: "There is little that is agreeable in Eastman Johnson's "'The Tramp' (491), and 'City People in Country Quarters' (463)," as City People in Country Quarters.NAD 1877b
National Academy of Design. Illustrated Catalogue of the 52nd Annual Exhibition. New York: National Academy of Design, 1877. Exhibition catalogue (1877b NAD), no. 463, as City People in Country Quarters.Scribner's Monthly 1877b
"The National Academy Exhibition, 1877." Scribner's Monthly 14, no. 2 (June 1877), p. 264: "It would be interesting to review the examples of…Eastman Johnson who would always make agreeable pictures, if he had taste to guide him in the choice of subjects,—as witness his admirable 'Dropping Off' and his painful 'City People in Country Quarters.'," as City People in Country Quarters.NAD 1877c
Academy Sketches, Comprising Reproductions in Fac-Simile from Drawings by the Artists, of 110 of the Pictures in the Annual Exhibition for 1877 of the National Academy of Design. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1877. Exhibition catalogue (1877b NAD), p. 52, no. 463, as City People and Country Quarters.AAA 1907b
Catalogue of Finished Pictures, Studies, and Drawings by the Late Eastman Johnson, N.A. New York: American Art Association, February 1907. Sale catalogue, n.p., no. 143, as City People in Country Quarters.Douglass 1999
Douglass, Julie M. "Lifetime Exhibition History." In Eastman Johnson: Painting America, by Teresa A. Carbone and Patricia Hills. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 262, 266.Baradel 2014
Baradel, Lacey. "Geographic Mobility and Domesticity in Eastman Johnson’s 'The Tramp.'" American Art 28, no. 2 (Summer 2014), pp. 26–49.Keywords
- Subject matter:
- Stoves »
Record last updated April 7, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "City People in Country Quarters, 1877 (Hills no. 26.1.15)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=383 (accessed on May 4, 2024).