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

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Photo: Charles P. Russell Collection, Deerfield Academy
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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

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.

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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 May 3, 2024).