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Patricia Hills, taken of an image in the Brooklyn Museum Archives
⊠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
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Hills no. 39.1.32
Baur no. 418
Girl Looking Down (No. 2)
c.1878
Pencil on brown paper
9 3/4 x 6 3/4 in. (24.8 x 17.1 cm)
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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. 418, as
Girl Looking Down (No. 2).
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Conkling, Ethel Eastman Johnson
Biography: Ethel Eastman Johnson Conkling (1870–1931). Daughter of Johnson. Married Alfred Ronalds Conkling (m. 1896); after Conkling died, married William H. Holden (m. 1922) and settled abroad. Mother of three daughters, only one of whom had her own children. Ethel was Johnson’s frequent model in his genre scenes of children.
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Conkling, Ethel Eastman Johnson (Mrs. Alfred Ronald Conkling, later Mrs. William H. Holden)
Record last updated February 15, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Girl Looking Down (No. 2), c.1878 (Hills no. 39.1.32)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=887 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
