Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
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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
Hills no. 31.3.6
Edwina Booth
Alternate title: Portrait of Edwina Booth
1885
Oil on canvas mounted to aluminum
29 1/2 x 24 in. (74.9 x 61 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: E. Johnson/1885 [As in other Johnson paintings of the 1880s and 1890s, the "8"s have a flat top]
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Description/Remarks
Five Colleges and Historic Deerfield Museum Consortium Collections Database, accessed July 2, 2019: "Johnson depicts Edwina Booth—the daughter of the celebrated Shakespearean actor Edwin Booth (1833–1893) and the niece of President Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth (1838–1865)—on the eve of her marriage to the banker Ignatius R. Grossman (later spelled Crossman)."
Provenance
Exhibitions
Boston University, School of Fine and Applied Arts, Boston, Boston Painters, March 15–April 15, 1968.
Mass Art Center, Brockton, Massachusetts, New England Art from New England Museums, January 15–March 10, 1969, no. 45.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition, March 28–May 14, 1972. (Exhibition catalogue: Hills 1972a), no. 105, b/w illus., p. 113, as Portrait of Edwina Booth. Traveled to: The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, June 7–July 22, 1972; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, August 15–September 30, 1972; Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, October 20–December 3, 1972.
Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, 19th Century American Realism: The Amherst College Collection, February 27–April 20, 1979.
References
Hills, Patricia. Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1972. Exhibition catalogue (1972 Whitney Museum), p. 113, no. 105.
19th Century American Realism: The Amherst College Collection. Boston: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 1979, p. 9; p. 113 illus.
Hills Examination/Opinion
Examination date(s): 1971-05-28
Examination notes: Soft pinkish greys. Outlined chin and lips. Very beautiful. Blue eyes.
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).
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Booth, Edwina (Mrs. Ignatius R. Grossman)
Keywords
- Portrait pose
: - Portrait sitter families
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Record last updated July 23, 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, 1885 (Hills no. 31.3.6)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=719 (accessed on May 1, 2025).