Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
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39.1 U.S. Figure & Landscape Sketches
When he returned to the United States in 1856, Johnson continued to make graphite pencil sketches in notebooks. Those that have survived time generally relate to paintings he did later, such as the many sketches of Nantucket characters or for paintings he was contemplating doing in the future. —PH
Hills no. 39.1.6
Baur no. 405
Doves
c.1860–69
Graphite on light olive-brown paper
10 1/2 x 15 in. (26.7 x 38.1 cm)
Inscribed verso: Sketches of birds $24.50 [and] Eastman Johnson Rosenthal Collection
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Description / Remarks
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, M. & M. Karolik Collection of American Water Colors & Drawings, 1800–1875. Vol. 1, p. 206: "Sheet of sketches."
Baur AAA Notebook #1, c. 1938–1941, p. 59: "Sketches of birds in various poses."
Exhibitions
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition, March 28–May 14, 1972. (Exhibition catalogue: Hills 1972a), no. 27, b/w illus., p. 35, as Doves. Traveled to: The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, June 7–July 22, 1972; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, August 15–September 30, 1972; Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, October 20–December 3, 1972.
References
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. 79, no. 405, as Doves.
M. & M. Karolik Collection of American Water Colors & Drawings, 1800–1875. Vol. 1. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1962. Exhibition catalogue, p. 206, no. 417, as Doves.
Hills, Patricia. Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1972. Exhibition catalogue (1972 Whitney Museum), p. 35, no. 27, illus., as Doves.
Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): October 1971
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Record last updated March 16, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Doves, c.1860–69 (Hills no. 39.1.6)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=862 (accessed on April 26, 2024).