Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné

Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager

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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. 26.1.23

Shoemaker Haggerty's Shop (Study for Old Whalers of Nantucket)

Alternate titles: Shoemaker Haberty's Shop; Shoemaker Hagertty's Shop; Shoemaker Hagertty's Shop—Study for The Nantucket School of Philosophy; Shoemaker Hagerty's Shop; Shoemaker Haggerty's Shop; Study for "The Nantucket School of Philosophy"; The Shoemaker Hagerty

c.1887

Locale: Nantucket, Massachusetts

Oil on artist's board

13 1/4 x 16 5/8 in. (33.7 x 42.2 cm)

Initialed lower right: E J

Present whereabouts unknown

Description / Remarks

MacGibeny, 2021: The subject is Captain George Haggerty of Nantucket (1808–1885).

Labels

Inscribed on 1 1/2" x 3 1/4" sticker on verso of board, upper left: Shoemaker Hagertty/Shop/Eastman Johnson.; printed on sticker: APG 213

Provenance

[Plaza Art Galleries, Inc., New York, March 30, 1968, Sale no. 5292, lot no. 38 (as The Shoemaker Hagerty)]

Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, March 30, 1968

Howard A. Wolf, July 1968 (by purchase)

Sotheby's, September 21, 1994, lot 23, Property from the Estate of Howard A. Wolf (as Shoemaker Hagertty's Shop); did not sell

[Sotheby's, November 29, 1995, Sale 6782, lot 136, Property from the Estate of Martha Wolf (as Shoemaker Hagertty's Shop)]

Unidentified buyer (by purchase)

Present whereabouts unknown

References

Crosby 1944

Crosby, Everett U. Eastman Johnson at Nantucket: His Paintings and Sketches of Nantucket People and Scenes. Nantucket, MA, 1944, p. 19, C.53, as Shoemaker Haggerty's Shop.

Hills Examination / Opinion

Examination date(s): 1994-07-14

Examination notes: 1994-07-14: Re ptg. L.R E.J. Note—Pale green strokes by light source at right. Colors of shoemaker—like the man reading. Very free. Objects on wall: horseshoe, newspaper. Short choppy strokes: ochre strokes on floor—leather.(?)

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Sitter Biography

Sitter: Haggerty, George

Biography:

Captain George Haggerty (1808–1885).

Related work

Haggerty, George

Keywords

Subject matter:
- Stoves »

Record last updated March 22, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Shoemaker Haggerty's Shop (Study for Old Whalers of Nantucket), c.1887 (Hills no. 26.1.23)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=385 (accessed on May 2, 2024).