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Photo: James Sousa, Addison Gallery of American Art
Inscriptions
Photo: James Sousa, Addison Gallery of American Art
Inscriptions
Photo: James Sousa, Addison Gallery of American Art
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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. 39.1.15
Baur no. 411
Sketches
Alternate titles: Figures; Sheet of Sketches
c.1870–80
Locale: Nantucket, Massachusetts
Graphite crayon, and chalk on wove paper
11 3/4 x 18 1/4 in. (29.8 x 46.4 cm)
Inscribed upper left: 2 years - 2-11 / 4 years - 3'1 [presumably measurements of a child]; also upper left: A - 8; right edge center: 2 ft - 11 - 2 years; lower right: horn red/flap "/hood/front bird view
Description / Remarks
Hills, 1970: Little girl from back with bellows tucked under arm. Turkeys, ducks, hen roosting, standing woman with bustle.
MacGibeny, 2022: The woman looking down at a turkey in the upper right corner of the rotated image appears in at least four of Johnson's five versions of Woman and Turkey, all dated c. 1870-1880. It is possible that the sketch of the back of a girl holding bellows is related to the unlocated Johnson painting Blowing the Fire, which features a child using bellows to blow the fire under a large kettle.
Provenance
Albert Rosenthal, New Hope, Pennsylvania
William Macbeth, Inc., New York, 1935
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts, 1935 (by purchase)
Exhibitions
1972 Whitney Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition, March 28–May 14, 1972. (Exhibition catalogue: Hills 1972a), no. 72, b/w illus., p. 87, as Sheet of Sketches. 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, 1972.1980a Addison Gallery of American Art
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Figure Drawings from the Addison Gallery Collection, January 15–March 9, 1980.1995 Addison Gallery of American Art
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Eastman Johnson, September 5–October 15, 1995.1999 Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, Eastman Johnson: Painting America, October 29, 1999–February 6, 2000. (Exhibition catalogue: Carbone and Hills 1999), no. 47, color illus., p. 89, as Sketches. Traveled to: San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, San Diego, February 25–May 21, 2000; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, June 8–September 10, 2000.References
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. 79, no. 411, as Figures.Hills 1972a
Hills, Patricia. Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1972. Exhibition catalogue (1972 Whitney Museum), p. 87, no. 72, illus., as Sheet of Sketches.Carbone and Hills 1999
Carbone, Teresa A., and Patricia Hills. Eastman Johnson: Painting America. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. Exhibition catalogue (1999 Brooklyn Museum), p. 89, no. 47, illus., as Sketches.Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): October 28, 1970
Examination notes: Little girl from back with bellows tucked under arm. Turkeys, ducks, hen roosting, standing woman with bustle.
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Keywords
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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. "Sketches, c.1870–80 (Hills no. 39.1.15)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=871 (accessed on May 1, 2024).