Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné

Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager

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Patricia Hills, taken of an image in the Brooklyn Museum Archives

[ 18.0 Mother and Child ]

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18.0 Mother and Child

The mother and child theme in art not only has references to Christian art but also to the realities of caregiving by women. Johnson seems to have been particularly drawn to the theme as the result of his wife’s caring for their daughter, Ethel. —PH

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Hills no. 18.0.1

Baur no. 33

Black Woman and Child

Alternate title: Negro and Child

1864

Oil on wood

16 x 13 in. (40.6 x 33 cm)

Signed and dated lower right: E. Johnson '64

Present whereabouts unknown

Provenance

Mrs. Frank B. True, by 1940

Present whereabouts unknown

References

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), no. 33, as Negro and Child.

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Subject matter:
- Babies »
- Black children »
- Black mothers and children »
- Black people »
- Mothers and children »

Record last updated June 1, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Black Woman and Child, 1864 (Hills no. 18.0.1)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=94 (accessed on May 18, 2024).