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

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Photo: Courtesy of Hammer Galleries
[ 31.3 U.S. Portraits, Women ]info
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31.3 U.S. Portraits, Women

Johnson’s paintings of women are often his best portraits, exhibiting a range of techniques and emphasizing their intelligent faces even when enwrapped in sumptuous fabrics, such as we see in Edwina Booth. —PH

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Hills no. 31.3.9
Edwina Booth
Alternate title: Lady in Yellow
c.1885
Oil on canvas
22 x 14 in. (55.9 x 35.6 cm)
Initialed lower right: E.J.
Present whereabouts unknown
Description / Remarks

Hills opinion letter, 2011: "The 3/4-length portrait shows a very beautiful woman turned in profile with blue eyes."

Labels
Labels on verso: Hirschl & Adler; Hammer Gallery
Provenance
Private collection (by descent in the family of the artist)
[Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1977]
Private collection, Connecticut
Hammer Galleries, New York, 1981
Private collection, circa 1980s
[Christie's, September 27, 2011, Sale 2467, Property of a Florida and New York Private Collector, lot 107]
Unidentified buyer, September 27, 2011 (by purchase)
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
1981 Hammer Galleries
Hammer Galleries, New York, 19th and 20th Century European and American Paintings: Recent Acquisitions, June 16–August 31, 1981. (Exhibition catalogue: Hammer Galleries 1981).
References
Hammer Galleries 1981
19th & 20th Century European & American Paintings: Recent Acquisitions. New York: Hammer Galleries, 1981. Exhibition catalogue (1981 Hammer Galleries), ilus.
Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 2011-08-01
Examination notes: Hills 2011 at Christie's: Craquelure over surface esp. face area. Restoration—heavy but sensitive. Graphite: under chin, along ear, along arm, lips, hands not formed. Dress: short, choppy strokes. Scrubbed brown strokes on right. Eyes in shadow.
Hills opinion letter: August 6, 2011 view »
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Booth, Edwina (Mrs. Ignatius R. Grossman)
Biography:

Edwina Booth (1861–1938). Daughter of Edwin Booth and Mary Devlin Booth; wife of Ignatius R. Grossman (m. 1885).

Booth, Edwina (Mrs. Ignatius R. Grossman)
Keywords
Record last updated July 29, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Edwina Booth, c.1885 (Hills no. 31.3.9)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=717 (accessed on April 30, 2024).