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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. 31.3.42
Baur no. 234
Sarah Osgood Johnson Newton
Alternate title: Sarah Johnson Newton
1856, October
Locale: Superior, Wisconsin
Oil on canvas
36 x 29 1/2 in. (91.4 x 74.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: Eastman Johnson Pinxt/Superior/Oct. 1856
Private collection, Bedford, Massachusetts
Provenance
Sarah May (Mrs. Walter D.) Edmonds, New York, niece of the artist, daughter of his sister Harriet, by 1940
Walter D. Edmonds, Concord, Massachusetts, her son, by 1976
Private collection, Bedford, Massachusetts, 1998
Exhibitions
1939 Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824–1906, January 18, 1939–February 26, 1940. (Exhibition catalogue: Baur 1940), no. 234, as Sarah Johnson Newton.1999 Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, Eastman Johnson: Painting America, October 29, 1999–February 6, 2000. (Exhibition catalogue: Carbone and Hills 1999), no. 15, as Sarah Osgood Johnson Newton. Traveled to: San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, San Diego, February 25–May 21, 2000; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, June 8–September 10, 2000.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. 234, as Sarah Johnson Newton.Carbone and Hills 1999
Carbone, Teresa A., and Patricia Hills. Eastman Johnson: Painting America. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. Exhibition catalogue (1999 Brooklyn Museum), p. 34, no. 15, as Sarah Osgood Johnson Newton.Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 1998-03-11
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Newton, Sarah Osgood Johnson (Mrs. William H. Newton)
Biography:
Sarah Osgood Johnson Newton (1831–?). Sister of Johnson; wife of William Henry Newton. Mother of Martha, Mary Elizabeth, William Henry, John, and James.
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Newton, Sarah Osgood Johnson (Mrs. William H. Newton)
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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. "Sarah Osgood Johnson Newton, 1856, October (Hills no. 31.3.42)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=750 (accessed on May 3, 2024).