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Photo: Courtesy Adelson Galleries, NY
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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]
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
Edwin Booth (by commission), 1885
Edwina Booth Grossman, his daughter (by descent)
Edwin Booth Grossman, her son (by descent)
Lois Fellows Grossman (Mrs. Henry C.) White, his daughter
Henry C. White, her husband
Adelson Galleries, by 1967
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, 1967 (by purchase)
Exhibitions
1968 Boston University, School of Fine and Applied Arts
Boston University, School of Fine and Applied Arts, Boston, Boston Painters, March 15–April 15, 1968.1969 Mass Art Center
Mass Art Center, Brockton, Massachusetts, New England Art from New England Museums, January 15–March 10, 1969, no. 45.1972 Whitney Museum
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, 1972.1979 Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, 19th Century American Realism: The Amherst College Collection, February 27–April 20, 1979.References
Antiques 1967
"Adelson Gallery advertisement." Antiques (New York) (August 1967).Hills 1972a
Hills, Patricia. Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1972. Exhibition catalogue (1972 Whitney Museum), p. 113, no. 105.Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 1979
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)
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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)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=719 (accessed on May 8, 2024).