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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. 26.1.4
Baur no. 60 / 1907 Sale no. 1
Jim Folsom (Study for A Glass with the Squire)
1907 Sale title: Nathaniel Jenkins [incorrect]
Alternate titles: Jim Folsom; Jim Folsom: A Study for "A Glass with the Squire"; Nathaniel Jenkins - Study for a Glass With The Squire
c.1873–80
Locale: Nantucket, Massachusetts
Oil on academy board
8 1/2 x 6 3/4 in. (21.6 x 17.1 cm)
Initialed upper left: E.J.
Description / Remarks
Baur 1940, p. 51: "A study for A Glass with the Squire ([Baur] no. 61, Pl. XXVI). It has been called also Nathaniel Jenkins, but Mrs. Edmonds, the artist's niece, has identified it as above [Jim Folsom]."
1907 Estate Sale 
No. 1: "This is a study of the figure of the old farmer in the picture entitled 'A Glass with the Squire.'
"Signed at the upper left, E. J.
Height, 8 1/2 inches; width, 6 ½ inches"
[Annotation: “45.00 / Cogswell”]
"Signed at the upper left, E. J.
Height, 8 1/2 inches; width, 6 ½ inches"
[Annotation: “45.00 / Cogswell”]
Markings
Verso of frame, in pencil: Nathaniel Jenkins
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. 1 (as Nathaniel Jenkins)]
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)
Douthitt Galleries, New York, by 1940
William Macbeth, Inc., New York
Victor D. Spark, New York
Dr. and Mrs. Irving F. Burton, Huntington Woods, Michigan
[Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc., New York, October 18, 1972, Sale 3417, Highly Important 19th and 20th Century American Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, The Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Irving F. Burton, Huntington Woods, Michigan, lot 11 (as Jim Folsom: A Study for "A Glass with the Squire")]
Private collector, Tennessee, October 18, 1972 (by purchase)
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
1907a Century Association
Century Association, New York, Memorial Exhibition of Eastman Johnson, February 9–13, 1907, as Nathaniel Jenkins [incorrect].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. 60, b/w illus., Pl. XXIV, as Jim Folsom.1942 John Levy Galleries
John Levy Galleries, New York, Exhibition of Eastman Johnson, April 8–30, 1942. (John Levy Galleries 1942), no. 2, as Nathaniel Jenkins - Study for a Glass With The Squire.References
Selby 1907
Selby, Mark. "An American Painter: Eastman Johnson." Putnam's Monthly 2 (August 1907).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. 1, as Nathaniel Jenkins [incorrect].Bolton 1923
Bolton, Theodore. Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayon. New York: F. F. Sherman, 1923, p. 39, no. 17, as Nathaniel Jenkins [incorrect].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. 51, 62, no. 60, Pl. XXIV, as Jim Folsom.Douthitt Gallery 1940
Eastman Johnson: The Keystone Artist. New York: Douthitt Gallery, 1940. Exhibition catalogue (1940 Douthitt Gallery), no. 28.Jewell 1940
Jewell, Edward Alden. "Three Phases of Genre: Brooklyn Museum Shows Eastman Johnson—Murals by Olin Dows—Brueghel Prints." New York Times, January 21, 1940, p. 123, illus., as Nathaniel Jenkins [incorrect].John Levy Galleries 1942
Exhibition of Eastman Johnson. New York: John Levy Galleries, 1942. Exhibition catalogue (1942 John Levy Galleries), n.p. (2), no. 2, as Nathaniel Jenkins - 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, 35, no. C.16, as Nathaniel Jenkins [incorrect].Sotheby Parke Bernet 1972
Highly Important 19th and 20th Century American Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings, The Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Irving F. Burton, Huntington Woods. New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet, October 18, 1972. Sale catalogue, illus., as Jim Folsom: A Study for "A Glass with the Squire".Sitter Biography
Sitter: Folsom, Jim
Biography:
Jim Folsom (life dates unknown). Further identification pending.
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Record last updated May 27, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Jim Folsom (Study for A Glass with the Squire), c.1873–80 (Hills no. 26.1.4)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=396 (accessed on May 5, 2024).