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

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[ 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. 31.3.30
Baur no. 195
Mary Jane Ellison Hanna
Cincinnati Art Museum title: Mary Jane Ellison (Mrs. Henry Hanna)
Alternate title: Mrs. Henry Hanna (Mary Jane Ellison)
c.1857–58
Oil on canvas
27 1/4 x 22 1/4 in. (69.2 x 56.5 cm)
Cincinnati Art Museum, Gift of Mary Hanna (1946.121)
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hanna
Miss Mary Hanna, by 1940 (by descent)
Cincinnati Art Museum, 1946 (by gift)
Exhibitions
1923 Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Paintings by Former Cincinnati Artists, April 7–23, 1923.
1932 Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Portraits of Early Cincinnatians, May 19–June 19, 1932, no. 44.
1954 Taft Museum
Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, The Historical Society of Ohio's Cincinnati Women Exhibition, April 22–June 8, 1954.
1954 Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio
Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio through the Taft Museum, Cincinnati, To the Ladies, 1788–1928, April 24–June 8, 1954.
References
Cincinnati Enquirer 1923
"The Week in Art Circles." Cincinnati Enquirer, April 15, 1923.
Siple 1932
Siple, Walter H. "Notes on the Exhibition of Cincinnati Portraits." Bulletin on the Cincinnati Art Museum 3 (October 1932).
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), p. 68, no. 195, as Mrs. Henry Hanna (Mary Jane Ellison).
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Hanna, Mary Jane Ellison (Mrs. Henry Hanna)
Biography:

Mary Jane Ellison Hanna (1823–1910). Wife of Henry Hanna.

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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. "Mary Jane Ellison Hanna, c.1857–58 (Hills no. 31.3.30)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=738 (accessed on May 8, 2024).