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

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Photo: Chicago History Museum, ICHi-176429
Harriett Sanger Pullman Carolan, 1892 (Hills no. 31.3.13). Johnson's portrait of Harriet Sanger Pullman Carolan hanging in the Pullman mansion, 1729 Prairie Avenue, Chicago (c. 1894–1921)
Johnson's portrait of Harriet Sanger Pullman Carolan hanging in the Pullman mansion, 1729 Prairie Avenue, Chicago (c. 1894–1921)
Photo: Courtesy of Warren Pullman Miller
Harriett Sanger Pullman Carolan, 1892 (Hills no. 31.3.13). Johnson's portraits of George Mortimer Pullman, Florence Pullman Lowden, and Harriet Sanger Pullman Carolan hanging in the Pullman mansion, 1729 Prairie Avenue, Chicago (c. 1894–1921)
Johnson's portraits of George Mortimer Pullman, Florence Pullman Lowden, and Harriet Sanger Pullman Carolan hanging in the Pullman mansion, 1729 Prairie Avenue, Chicago (c. 1894–1921)
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

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Hills no. 31.3.13
Harriett Sanger Pullman Carolan
Chicago History Museum title: Harriet [sic] Sanger Pullman; Mrs. Arthur Frederic Schermerhorn (Harriett Pullman)
Alternate titles: possibly Portrait of Miss Pullman; Harriet [sic] Sanger Pullman; Harriett Pullman; Katie Tuckerman Schermerhorn [incorrect]; Mrs. Arthur Frederic (Harriett Pullman) Schermerhorn; Portrait of Mrs. Arthur Frederick (Harriet Pullman) Schermerhorn
1892
Oil on canvas
78 x 48 in. (198.1 x 121.9 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: E. Johnson/1892. [As in other Johnson paintings of the 1880s and 1890s, the "8" has a flat top]
Chicago History Museum (1957.281)
Description/Remarks

MacGibeny, 2021: This portrait is shown in the linked photographs of the Pullman mansion, where it hung with Johnson's portrait of the sitter's father, George Mortimer Pullman, and sister, Florence Pullman Lowden.

Chicago Historical Society information sheet, undated: "Full length, turned slightly to right; hand on hip at left, hand at right holding a bunch of red roses; black long full dress."

Provenance
Possibly Francis J. Carolan, San Francisco, husband of the sitter, by 1893
Estate of Mrs. Harriett Pullman Schermerhorn, the sitter, 1956
Chicago History Museum, 1957
Exhibitions
1898 Carnegie Institute
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, November 3, 1898–January 1, 1899, no. 29, [possibly, as Portrait of Miss Pullman].
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Schermerhorn, Harriett Sanger Pullman Carolan (Mrs. Francis Carolan, then Mrs. Arthur Schermerhorn)
Biography:

Harriett Sanger Pullman Carolan Schermerhorn (1869–1956). Daughter of George M. Pullman. Married Francis Carolan (d. 1923) of San Francisco (m. 1892), and then married Colonel Arthur Schermerhorn (m. 1925). “...[A]unt of Mrs. C. Philip Miller” [Chicago Historical Society].

Obituary. "Mrs. Schermerhorn of Pullman Family." New York Times, October 23, 1956.

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Schermerhorn, Harriett Sanger Pullman Carolan (Mrs. Francis Carolan, later Mrs. Arthur Schermerhorn)
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Record last updated March 22, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Harriett Sanger Pullman Carolan, 1892 (Hills no. 31.3.13)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=758 (accessed on May 2, 2025).