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. 39.1.26
Baur no. 395
Berry Picking
Alternate titles: possibly Berry-Pickers; Berry Pickers
c.1875–80
Locale: Nantucket, Massachusetts
Graphite, watercolor, and Chinese white on wove paper
7 3/4 x 19 3/8 in. (19.7 x 49.2 cm)
Unsigned and undated; inscribed lower left in graphite, upside down: pails + clothes / Bottle in the tree / fence up to [rail]
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Exhibitions
Kennedy Galleries, New York, Charcoal Drawings of Eminent Americans by Eastman Johnson, June 1920. (Exhibition catalogue: Kennedy Galleries 1920), no. 60, [possibly, as Berry Pickers].
Kenneth Taylor Galleries of the Nantucket Foundation, Inc, Nantucket, Massachusetts, Eastman Johnson Exhibition, July 23–August 5, 1945.
Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, Artists in the 19th Century, October 27–November 26, 1956.
University Art Galleries, University of New Hampshire, New Hampshire, A Century of American Art, 1866–1966: 100 Years of Visual Evolution, January 15–February 15, 1966.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition, March 28–May 14, 1972. (Exhibition catalogue: Hills 1972a), no. 81, b/w illus., p. 90, as Berry Picking. 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.
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, The Düsseldorf Academy and the Americans: An Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolors, September 23–October 28, 1973. Traveled to: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, New York, January 7–February 11, 1973; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., April 27–July 28, 1973.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Watercolors from the Permanent Collection, November 8–December 15, 1974.
American Federation of Arts, New York, American Master Drawings and Watercolors: Works on Paper from Colonial Times to the Present, September 1, 1976–April 17, 1977.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Masterworks of American Art from the Addison Gallery Collection, October 6–31, 1981.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, At Work and Play: Selections from the Permanent Collection, May 15–July 31, 1987.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Ideas and Notations: Masterworks on Paper from the Addison Collection, April 10–August 2, 1992.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Eastman Johnson, September 5–October 15, 1995.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, 65 Years, Addison Gallery of American Art, April 13–July 31, 1996.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Explorations, April 7–July 31, 2001.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Explorations: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints in the Addison, September 4, 2001–January 13, 2002.
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, On Paper: Masterworks from the Addison Collection, February 1–April 6, 2003.
References
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Charcoal Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1920. Exhibition catalogue (1920 Kennedy Galleries), p. 10, no. 60 [possibly, as Berry-Pickers].
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. 78, no. 395, as Berry Picking.
Crosby, Everett U. Eastman Johnson at Nantucket: His Paintings and Sketches of Nantucket People and Scenes. Nantucket, MA, 1944, pp. 13, 27, no. C.9, illus., as Berry Pickers.
Slatkin, Charles E. Treasury of American Drawings. New York: Oxford University Press, 1947, p. xiv, as Berry Pickers.
Hills, Patricia. Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1972. Exhibition catalogue (1972 Whitney Museum), p. 90, no. 81, illus., as Berry Picking.
Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): October 28, 1970
Keywords
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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. "Berry Picking, c.1875–80 (Hills no. 39.1.26)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=896 (accessed on April 25, 2024).