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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]
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
1920 Kennedy Galleries
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].1945 Kenneth Taylor Galleries
Kenneth Taylor Galleries of the Nantucket Foundation, Inc, Nantucket, Massachusetts, Eastman Johnson Exhibition, July 23–August 5, 1945.1956 Essex Institute
Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, Artists in the 19th Century, October 27–November 26, 1956.1966 University Art Galleries, University of New Hampshire
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, 1966.1972 Whitney Museum
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, 1972.1973 High Museum
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, 1973.1974 Addison Gallery of American Art
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Watercolors from the Permanent Collection, November 8–December 15, 1974.1976 AFA
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, 1977.1981 Hirschl & Adler
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Masterworks of American Art from the Addison Gallery Collection, October 6–31, 1981.1987 Addison Gallery of American Art
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, At Work and Play: Selections from the Permanent Collection, May 15–July 31, 1987.1992 Addison Gallery of American Art
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Ideas and Notations: Masterworks on Paper from the Addison Collection, April 10–August 2, 1992.1995 Addison Gallery of American Art
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Eastman Johnson, September 5–October 15, 1995.1996 Addison Gallery of American Art
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, 65 Years, Addison Gallery of American Art, April 13–July 31, 1996.2001a Addison Gallery of American Art
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Explorations, April 7–July 31, 2001.2001c Addison Gallery of American Art
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, Explorations: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints in the Addison, September 4, 2001–January 13, 2002.2003b Addison Gallery of American Art
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts, On Paper: Masterworks from the Addison Collection, February 1–April 6, 2003.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. 60 [possibly, as Berry-Pickers].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. 78, no. 395, as Berry Picking.Crosby 1944
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 1947
Slatkin, Charles E. Treasury of American Drawings. New York: Oxford University Press, 1947, p. xiv, as Berry Pickers.Hills 1972a
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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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 May 5, 2024).