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Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager

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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

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Hills no. 39.1.23
Baur no. 456
Sheep
c.1873–77
Charcoal heightened with white on yellow-brown paper
10 x 13 in. (25.4 x 33 cm) (irreg.)
Neither signed nor dated
Provenance
Albert Rosenthal, New Hope, Pennsylvania, until c. 1923
The Free Library of Philadelphia, The Rosenthal Collection of Drawings by American Artists, c. 1923 (by gift)
Exhibitions
1920 Kennedy Galleries
Kennedy Galleries, New York, Charcoal Drawings of Eminent Americans by Eastman Johnson, June 1920. (Exhibition catalogue: Kennedy Galleries 1920), no. 64, as Sheep.
References
Kennedy Galleries 1920
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Charcoal Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1920. Exhibition catalogue (1920 Kennedy Galleries), p. 10, no. 64, as Sheep.
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. 81, no. 456, as Sheep.
Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): March 29, 1971
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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. "Sheep, c.1873–77 (Hills no. 39.1.23)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=888 (accessed on May 8, 2024).