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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. 26.1.6
Baur no. 62 / 1907 Sale no. 64
Study for "A Glass with the Squire"
1907 Sale title: A Glass with the Squire
Princeton University Art Museum title: Study for A Glass with the Squire
Alternate title: Study for the Glass with the Squire
c.1873–80
Locale: Nantucket, Massachusetts
Oil on paper board
25 3/8 x 20 7/8 in. (64.5 x 53 cm)
Neither signed nor dated
1907 Estate Sale 
No. 64: "This is a study for one of the artist’s most important pictures. An old squire, standing near a Sheraton side-board on which a liqueur box stands open, raises a glass in his hand, toasting a farmer who stands opposite him, partly leaning on the end of the sideboard. Both figures are dressed in the characteristic costumes of the middle of the last century, both wearing beaver hats, the squire with a swallow-tailed coat and the farmer with a caped overcoat."
"Height, 25 ½ inches; width, 20 ½ inches."
[Annotation: “305.00 / W. B. Cogswell”]
"Height, 25 ½ inches; width, 20 ½ inches."
[Annotation: “305.00 / W. B. Cogswell”]
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. 64 (as A Glass with the Squire)]
William Browne Cogswell, Syracuse, New York, husband of the artist's niece, Mary Naomi Johnson Cogswell (daughter of the artist's brother Reuben), February 26, 1907 (by purchase)
Cora Browning Cogswell, his wife, 1921 (by bequest)
Florence Pearl and Elizabeth C. Browning, Syracuse, New York, her sisters, 1936 (by bequest)
Unidentified owner, by 1944
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, by 1969
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart P. Feld, New York, by 1999
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey, 2006 (by gift)
Exhibitions
1907a Century Association
Century Association, New York, Memorial Exhibition of Eastman Johnson, February 9–13, 1907, as Study for the Glass with the Squire.1969 Hirschl & Adler
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, The American Scene: A Survey of the Life and Landscape of the 19th Century, October 29–November 22, 1969. (Hirschl & Adler Galleries 1969), no. 51, b/w illus., as Study for "A Glass with the Squire".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. 61, color illus., p. 107, as Study for "A Glass with the Squire". 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
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. 64, as A Glass with the Squire.American Art News 1907b
"Eastman Johnson Sale." American Art News 5, no. 20 (March 2, 1907), p. 3, as A Glass with the Squire.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), p. 62, no. 62, as Study for "A Glass with the Squire".Crosby 1944
Crosby, Everett U. Eastman Johnson at Nantucket: His Paintings and Sketches of Nantucket People and Scenes. Nantucket, MA, 1944, pp. 13, 34, C.15, illus., as Study for A Glass with the Squire.Hirschl & Adler Galleries 1969
Hirschl & Adler Galleries. The American Scene: A Survey of the Life and Landscape of the 19th Century. New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1969. Exhibition catalogue (1969 Hirschl & Adler), p. 44, no. 51, illus., as Study for "A Glass with the Squire".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. 107, no. 61, illus. in color, as Study for "A Glass with the Squire".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, p. 266, as Study for the Glass with the Squire.Related work
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Record last updated June 14, 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 "A Glass with the Squire", c.1873–80 (Hills no. 26.1.6)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=394 (accessed on May 2, 2024).