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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

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. 31.3.34
Baur no. 201
Mary Gracie Ulschoeffer Hoffman
Alternate titles: Mrs. William Bayard Hoffman; Mrs. William Bayard Hoffman (Mary Gracie Ulschoeffer)
1887, Christmas
Oil on canvas
26 3/4 x 21 1/2 in. (67.9 x 54.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: E. Johnson, Xmas 1887
Provenance
Mary Ulschoeffer Hoffman, New York, daughter of the sitter, by November 10, 1933 (by inheritance)
Present whereabouts unknown
References
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. 69, no. 201, as Mrs. William Bayard Hoffman (Mary Gracie Ulschoeffer).
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Hoffman, Mary Gracie Ulschoeffer (Mrs. William Bayard Hoffman)
Biography:

Mary Gracie Ulschoeffer Hoffman (1834–1911). Wife of William Bayard Hoffman.

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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 Gracie Ulschoeffer Hoffman, 1887, Christmas (Hills no. 31.3.34)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=740 (accessed on May 5, 2024).