New York:
National Academy of Design,
1874.
Exhibition catalogue (1874 NAD), no. 188, as
A Prisoner of State, For sale.
"Fine Art in the West: The Art Gallery of the Chicago Exposition: A Notable Collection—The Trials of the Committee—Gossip about the Pictures—M'Entee, Leutze, Eastman Johnson" [From a Special Correspondent, Chicago, September 21, 1875]. New York Times,
September 26, 1875, p. 10 [possibly]: “One of the most charming pictures in the collection is Eastman Johnson’s
'Old Stage Coach’…The sunny contentment of the merry group of children takes you out of the work-a-day world…Another picture in the Johnson group—“The Prisoner”—is well known for its terrible power. It is a striking proof of versatile genius that this doomed, hungry-eyed man and the Arcadian group of boys and girls about the old stage coach should have been born from the same brain and brush.”
.
Official Catalogue of the International Exhibition of 1876. Part II: Art Gallery, Annexes, and Outdoor Works of Art. Department IV: Art. Cambridge, MA:
John R. Nagle & Company,
1876.
Exhibition catalogue, p. 19, no. 96, as
Prisoner of State, owner Eastman Johnson, for sale.
Wickersham, J. P., ed. "Centennial Buildings: The Art Gallery: Memorial Hall and Art Annex." The Pennsylvania School Journal (August 1876), p. 76: "'The Prisoner of State,' by Eastman Johnson, is unlike any of his other works, being broad in style and very soft and pleasant in color. In the mellow light striking down through a barred window in a thick stone wall, is the figure of a fine-looking gray-haired man, his face, in full light, wearing that utterly sad expression which comes with the death of hope."
G. A. R. "The Art of America: Its Exhibits at Philadelphia." New York Times,
June 13, 1876, p. 1: "Eastman Johnson has in this room a charming picture of a young mother playing bo-peep with her little boy; but I prefer to pass it by that I may criticize his 'Prisoner' in Memorial Hall, which I believe to be the greatest picture he has ever painted."
Catalogue of the Paintings in the Art Gallery of the Inter-State Industrial Exposition of Chicago. Chicago:
Rand, McNally & Co.,
1877.
Exhibition catalogue (1877 Chicago Inter-State), p. 7, no. 51, as
Prisoner of State.
Champlin, John Denison, Jr., and Charles C. Perkins. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. Vol. 2. New York:
C. Scribner's Sons,
1886, p. 351 [possibly, as
Prisoner of State (1874)]
.
Paris Exposition of 1900. Official Illustrated Catalogue, Fine Arts Exhibit, United States of America, Paris Exposition of 1900. Boston:
Noyes, Platt, and Company,
1900.
Exhibition of Fine Arts: The South Carolina Inter-State and West Indian Exposition Catalogue. Charleston, SC:
Lucas-Richardson Co.,
1901/1902, p. 16
.
Low, Will. "Eastman Johnson—His Life and Works." Scribner's Magazine (August 1906), p. 254 [possibly, as
Prisoner of State]
.
Walton, William. "Eastman Johnson, Painter." Scribner's Magazine (September 1906), p. 272 [possibly, as
Prisoner of State]
.
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. 45–46, 66, no. 134, as
The Prisoner of State.
"Auctions." New York Times,
April 19, 1985, Section C26: notice of upcoming sale at William Doyle Galleries, as
The Prisoner of State.
Important 19th and 20th Century American Paintings and Sculpture. New York:
William Doyle Galleries,
April 24, 1985.
Sale catalogue, as
The Prisoner of State.
"Inness Works Gifted to the Clark." The Advocate,
April 11, 2013.
