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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. 31.3.54
Baur no. 264
Candace Wheeler Stimson
Alternate titles: Mrs. Lewis A. Stimson (Unfinished); Mrs. Lewis A. Stimson, nee Candace Wheeler (Unfinished)
c.1880–89
Oil on canvas
26 x 21 in. (66 x 53.3 cm)
Initialed lower left: E.J.
Provenance
Hon. Henry L. Stimson ("Woodley"), Washington, D.C., c. April 1913 (by purchase from Mrs. Johnson)
Present whereabouts unknown
References
American Art News 1913
"With the Artists: Charleston (S.C.)." American Art News, April 12, 1913, p. 3: "Ex-Secretary Henry L. Stimson has bought from Mrs. Eastman Johnson a vignette portrait of his mother, Candace Wheeler, who sat to the late Eastman Johnson soon after becoming Dr. Stimson's bride."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. 72, no. 264, as Mrs. Lewis A. Stimson (Unfinished).Sitter Biography
Sitter: Stimson, Candace Thurber Wheeler (Mrs. Lewis A. Stimson)
Biography:
Candace Thurber Wheeler Stimson (1845–1876). Daughter of Candace Thurber Wheeler, often called the “mother of interior design”; wife of Lewis Atterbury Stimson.
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Record last updated August 26, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Candace Wheeler Stimson, c.1880–89 (Hills no. 31.3.54)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=761 (accessed on May 2, 2024).