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

Catalogue Entry

enlarge
© 1982 Christie’s Images Limited
[ 31.3 U.S. Portraits, Women ]info
⊠
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

View all works in this theme »

Hills no. 31.3.21
Laura Astor Delano
Alternate titles: possibly Laura Astor Delano (Mrs. Franklyn [sic] H.); Mrs. Franklin Delano; Portrait of Mrs. Franklin Delano
1882
Oil on canvas
49 1/2 x 33 in. (125.7 x 83.8 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: 1882
Present whereabouts unknown
Provenance
The Delano Family
Mrs. Justus Schelb, Springfield, Massachusetts
John McDonald, New York, John McDonald, New York
[Unidentified auction house, December 2, 1977]
[Christie's, September 30, 1982, Sale 5165, lot 182a]
Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Bentley, Sr., by c. 1987
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
1984 Georgia Museum of Art
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia, People, 1984.
1988 Georgia Museum of Art
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, A Traditional View: The Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Bentley Sr. Collection of American Art, December 3, 1988–January 22, 1989. (Georgia Museum 1988), no. 28, as Mrs. Franklin Delano.
[1987] Arts Center Tower
Arts Center Tower, Atlanta, American Sampler: Selections of Paintings from Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Bentley Sr., [1987]. (Exhibition catalogue: Arts Center Tower [1980s]), no. 17, as Portrait of Mrs. Franklin Delano. Traveled to: Kennesaw College, Kennesaw, Georgia; Reinhardt College, Waleska, Georgia; Thomasville Cultural Center, Thomasville, Georgia.
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 Laura Astor Delano (Mrs. Franklyn [sic] H.)].
Georgia Museum 1988
A Traditional View: The Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Bentley Sr. Collection of American Art. Athens, GA: Georgia Museum of Art, 1988. Exhibition brochure (1988 Georgia Museum of Art), no. 28, as Mrs. Franklin Delano.
Arts Center Tower [1980s]
American sampler: Selections of Paintings from Mr. and Mrs. Fred D. Bentley Sr.'s Collection of American Paintings. Atlanta: Arts Center Tower, [late 1980s]. Exhibition catalogue ([1987] Arts Center Tower), p. 30, no. 17, as Portrait of Mrs. Franklin Delano.
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Delano, Laura Eugenia Astor (Mrs. Franklin Hughes Delano)
Biography:

Laura Eugenia Astor Delano (1824–1902). Granddaughter of John Jacob Astor; daughter of William Backhouse Astor, Jr. Married Franklyn Hughes Delano (m. 1844).

Related work
loading
Delano, Laura Eugenia Astor (Mrs. Franklin Hughes Delano)
Keywords
Record last updated December 9, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Laura Astor Delano, 1882 (Hills no. 31.3.21)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=728 (accessed on May 5, 2024).