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Photo: Charles P. Russell Collection, Deerfield Academy

[ 44.3 Euro Portrait Drawings, Women ]

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44.3 Euro Portrait Drawings, Women

Johnson continued drawing portraits in charcoal after he arrived in Europe. However, the currently located charcoal portrait drawings of American women friends were all executed in The Hague, and those portraits returned to the United States. Similar to the situation of the commissioned charcoal portraits of men, those works of European women remained in Europe. —PH

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Hills no. 44.3.6

Baur no. 313

Polly Garey

Alternate titles: Polly Garet [sic]; Polly Gary [sic]

1855, April 27

Locale: The Hague, the Netherlands

Charcoal on paper

22 x 18 1/2 in. (55.9 x 47 cm)

Initialed and dated lower left: E.J./4.27.1855

Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Massachusetts, Charles P. Russell Collection

Description / Remarks
Markings / Labels
Provenance
Exhibition History
Bibliography
Hills Examination / Opinion
Sitter Biography
Related Work
Keywords
Works after this Work

Description / Remarks

MacGibeny, 2022: The Polly Garey of this drawing owned by Deerfield Academy appears to be the same sitter as the Polly Garey of the drawing owned by Princeton, but the resemblance is not as close as one would expect between portraits of the same sitter by Johnson. The reasons for this are unclear and may be revealed by future research into the sitter and the circumstances of the portraits' making.

Provenance

Likely Eastman Johnson estate/Mrs. Eastman Johnson, New York, 1906 (by bequest)

Albert Rosenthal, New Hope, Pennsylvania, by 1923 (likely by purchase from Mrs. Johnson in 1915)

[American Art Association, New York (by purchase)]

Robert C. Vose, Boston, 1937

Mrs. Lucius D. Potter, Greenfield, Massachusetts, by 1940 until 1960

Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, Massachusetts, Charles P. Russell Collection, 1960 (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. 13, as Polly Garey.

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. 12, color illus., p. 30, as Polly Gary [sic]. 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

Kennedy Galleries 1920

Catalogue of an Exhibition of Charcoal Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1920. Exhibition catalogue (1920 Kennedy Galleries), p. 6, no. 13, as Polly Garey.

Bolton 1923

Bolton, Theodore. Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayon. New York: F. F. Sherman, 1923, p. 39, no. 8, as Polly Garet [sic].

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. 74, no. 313, as Polly Gary [sic].

Deerfield Academy 1969

The Charles P. Russell Collection. Deerfield, MA: Deerfield Academy, 1969, p. 62, illus., as Polly Gary [sic].

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. 30, no. 12, illus., as Polly Gary [sic].

Hills Examination / Opinion

Examination date(s): May 29, 1971

Examination notes: Good drawing. Intelligent face. Frame seems good. Pencil touches on the profile, nose and eyes.

Sitter Biography

Sitter: Garey, Polly

Biography:

Polly Garey (life dates unknown). Also identified as Polly Gary and Polly Garry in the titles of portrait drawings by Johnson.

Related work

Garey, Polly

Keywords

Portrait pose:
- Portrait »
- Standing »
- Three-quarter length »

Record last updated March 30, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Polly Garey, 1855, April 27 (Hills no. 44.3.6)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=921 (accessed on April 20, 2024).