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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. 26.1.24
Baur no. 69
Study for Old Whalers of Nantucket
Milwaukee Art Museum title: Study for "The Nantucket School of Philosophy"
Alternate titles: Shoemaker Hagerty's Shop; Shoemaker Haggerty's Shop; Study for The Nantucket School of Philosophy
c.1887
Locale: Nantucket, Massachusetts
Oil on canvas
22 3/16 x 27 3/8 in. (56.4 x 69.5 cm)
Initialed lower left: E. J.
Provenance
Abraham Heebner Wintersteen, the artist's nephew-in-law (husband of Lucretia May, daughter of the artist's sister Harriet), by 1940
John S. Wintersteen, Philadelphia, his son
Ehrich Galleries, New York
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, 1949 (by gift)
Exhibitions
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. 69, as Study for "The Nantucket School of Philosophy".1946 M. Knoedler & Co.
M. Knoedler & Co, New York, Paintings and Drawings by Eastman Johnson, January 7–26, 1946. (Exhibition catalogue: M. Knoedler & Co. 1946), no. 10, as Study for The Nantucket School of Philosophy. Traveled to: The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, March 1946 (California Palace 1946).1972 Whitney Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition, March 28–May 14, 1972. (Exhibition catalogue: Hills 1972a), no. 106, b/w illus., p. 108, as Study for The Nantucket School of Philosophy. 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.References
Kennedy Galleries 1920
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Charcoal Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1920. Exhibition catalogue (1920 Kennedy Galleries), p. 13, addendum “Paintings by Eastman Johnson," as Shoemaker Hagerty's Shop.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. 52, 63, no. 69, as Study for "The Nantucket School of Philosophy".Crosby 1944
Crosby, Everett U. Eastman Johnson at Nantucket: His Paintings and Sketches of Nantucket People and Scenes. Nantucket, MA, 1944, p. 15, C.29, as Study for The Nantucket School of Philosophy.Hills 1972a
Hills, Patricia. Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1972. Exhibition catalogue (1972 Whitney Museum), p. 108, no. 106, illus., as Study for The Nantucket School of Philosophy.Sitter Biography
Sitter: Haggerty, George
Biography:
Captain George Haggerty (1808–1885).
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Keywords
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- Stoves »
Record last updated March 24, 2022. 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 Old Whalers of Nantucket, c.1887 (Hills no. 26.1.24)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=386 (accessed on May 2, 2024).