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Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager
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31.7 U.S. Portraits, Groups

Some of Johnson’s most memorable paintings were his small scale compositions of family groups. Such works as these, traditionally called “conversation pieces,” trace their pedigree to England and seventeenth-century Holland. They were commissioned group portraits of wealthy patrons as they wanted to be seen, usually surrounded by sumptuous furnishing and a coterie of family and friends. —PH

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Hills no. 31.7.1
Percival P. Baxter and Madeleine Baxter
Bowdoin College Museum of Art title: Babes in the Woods
1882
Oil on canvas
36 x 30 1/8 in. (91.4 x 76.5 cm)
Signed and dated lower left in black: E. Johnson/1882
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Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Percival P. Baxter and Madeleine Baxter, 1882 (Hills no. 31.7.1)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=783 (accessed on March 29, 2024).