Catalogue Entry

Alexander Hamilton McGuffey, father of the sitter, 1880

Margaret D. McGuffey, sister of the sitter

Kingsley R. McGuffey, brother of the sitter, Detroit, until 1930

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., by 1940 (by gift) (accession no. 30.3); deaccessioned

[Christie's, December 2, 2009, Important American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, Property of the Corcoran Gallery of Art Sold to Benefit the Acquisitions Fund, lot 61 (as Harold McGuffey)]

Peter and Paula Lunder

Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, December 2, 2009 (by purchase)

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., before 1930, short-term loan, as Harold McGuffey.

Dougherty Carr Arts Foundation, and elsewhere, Corpus Christi, Texas, Light and Shadow, South Texas Artmobile, Sixth Exhibit, September–May 1975. (Exhibition catalogue: Dougherty Carr Arts Foundation 1975).

Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, The Lunder Collection: A Gift of Art to Colby College, July 13, 2013–June 8, 2014, as Harold McGuffey.

Kingsley R. MacGuffey letter to Mr. Minnegerode (Director of Corcoran Gallery of Art), October 23, 1929, Corcoran Gallery of Art Curatorial records, "There has come to me thro' the settlement of an estate an oil portrait of a young boy's head, the work of the late Eastman Johnson. For some years this hung in the Corcoran Gallery as a loan. If you would desire to have it permanently I shall be glad to have it crated and shipped at my expense. The boy was my brother Harold who died in infancy in Cincinnati…".

Hirschl, Norman. Eastman Johnson, 1824–1906: Forerunner of Homer and Eakins. New York: Frederic Frazier Inc., 1937. Exhibition catalogue (1937 Frazier Gallery), p. 8.

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. 231.

Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Vol. 1: Painters Born Before 1850. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1966, p. 115, as Harold McGuffey.

Light and Shadow, South Texas Artmobile, Sixth Exhibit. Corpus Christi, TX: Dougherty Carr Arts Foundation, 1975. Exhibition catalogue (1975 Dougherty Carr Arts Foundation), n.p., as Harold McGuffey.

Solnit, Albert J. "Changing Psychological Perspectives About Children and Their Families." Children Today 5, no. 3 (May–June 1976), p. 6, illus.