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Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager

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32.0 Self-Portraits

Johnson, like other artists, painted himself when not engaged in other projects. In these portraits we see the chronological progression of his physiognomy, especially his facial hair. Sometimes we see the inner man, and at other times we see the man in his environment. The self-portrait he presented to the National Academy of Design when he was inducted in 1859 is the grandest; but the most flamboyant is his self-portrait of 1899, in which he is dressed in the costume he wore at the Twelfth Night celebration at the Century Association. —PH

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Hills no. 32.0.17r
Baur no. 204
Self-Portrait
Alternate titles: possibly Eastman Johnson; Self Portrait
c.1890–99
Oil on board
29 3/4 x 22 3/4 in. (75.6 x 57.8 cm)
Present whereabouts unknown
Verso: Woman Spinning [verso of Self-Portrait], c.1890–99 (Hills no. 39.1.39v)
Description / Remarks

Baur 1940, p. 55: "On the back is a very slight sketch in white chalk of a woman at a spinning wheel and the word Rouet ['spinning wheel' in French], also in chalk."

Provenance
Eastman Johnson estate/Mrs. Eastman Johnson, New York, 1906 (by bequest)
Ethel Eastman Johnson Conkling Holden, her daughter (by descent)
Olga Louise Gwendolyn Conkling, her daughter, by 1940 (by descent)
Baron M. L. van Reigersberg Versluys, London, her nephew, by 1977 (by descent)
[Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1977–1982]
Private collection, 1982 (by purchase)
[Christie's, June 5, 1997, lot 24 (as Self-Portrait)]
Unidentified dealer, New York, June 5, 1997
Present whereabouts unknown
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. 204, as Self Portrait.
1979 Oklahoma Museum
Oklahoma Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Masters of the Portrait, March 4–April 29, 1979, no. 27, n.p.
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. 11, addendum "Paintings by Eastman Johnson" [possibly, as Eastman Johnson].
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. 55, 69, no. 204, as Self Portrait.
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Johnson, Jonathan Eastman
Biography:

Jonathan Eastman Johnson (1824–1906). American portrait and genre painter. Son of Philip Carrigan Johnson and Mary Kimball Chandler Johnson; brother of Reuben, Judith, Mary, Philip, Sarah, Harriet, and Eleanor. Married Elizabeth Williams Buckley (m. 1869); father of Ethel (1870–1931).  

Johnson, Jonathan Eastman
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Record last updated April 6, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Self-Portrait, c.1890–99 (Hills no. 32.0.17r)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=690 (accessed on May 2, 2024).