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Photo: Warren Pullman Miller
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Photo: Warren Pullman Miller
Johnson's portraits of George Mortimer Pullman, Florence Pullman Lowden, and Harriet Sanger Pullman Carolan hanging in the Pullman mansion, 1729 Prairie Avenue, Chicago
Photo: Courtesy of Warren Pullman Miller
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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. 31.3.39
Baur no. 224
Florence Pullman Lowden
Alternate title: Mrs. Frank O. Lowden
c.1892–94
Oil on canvas
44 x 34 in. (111.8 x 86.4 cm)
Unsigned
Provenance
Florence Lowden (Mrs. Charles Phillip) Miller, daughter of the sitter, by 1940 (by descent)
Warren Pullman Miller, Santa Barbara, California, her son (by descent)
Kimberley Miller
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. 70, no. 224, as Mrs. Frank O. Lowden.Sitter Biography
Sitter: Lowden, Florence Sanger Pullman (Mrs. Frank Orren Lowden)
Biography:
Florence Sanger Pullman Lowden (1868–1937). Daughter of George M. Pullman and Harriet Sanger Pullman. Sister of Harriett Sanger Pullman Carolan Schermerhorn. Wife of Frank Orren Lowden (1861–1943), Chicago lawyer and Governor of Illinois, 1917–1921.
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Record last updated October 18, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Florence Pullman Lowden, c.1892–94 (Hills no. 31.3.39)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=746 (accessed on May 2, 2024).