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[ 09.2 Black Women ]
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09.2 Black Women
During the 1860s Johnson painted Black men, women, and children that bestow on them dignity, intelligence, and grace. Many in his family, including his sister Harriet May and her husband Reverend Joseph May were ardent abolitionists. To Johnson, Blacks were not subjects to be ridiculed or satirized. —PH
Hills no. 9.2.2
1907 Sale no. 85
Dinnertime
Alternate title: possibly Dinner Time in Old Virginia
c.1862–65
Oil
14 x 9 1/2 in. (35.6 x 24.1 cm)
Initialed lower left: E. J.
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Description / Remarks
Hills, 2022: Although John I. H. Baur owned and annotated a copy of the catalogue of Johnson's 1907 Estate Sale, he did not include this work in his own 1940 catalogue listing; he must have obtained it after publication.
1907 Estate Sale
No. 85: "A portly negro woman stands back to the spectator, apparently near the doorway of her cabin, blowing a dinner horn. A strong flood of sunshine falls upon the flower garden and landscape, against which the figure, together with an overhanging vine and a few wooden boxes, is in high relief."
"Signed at the lower left, E. J.
Height, 14 inches; width, 9 ½ inches."
[Annotation: “32.50”]
"Signed at the lower left, E. J.
Height, 14 inches; width, 9 ½ inches."
[Annotation: “32.50”]
Provenance
Eastman Johnson estate/Mrs. Eastman Johnson, New York, 1906 (by bequest)
[The artist's estate sale, American Art Association, New York, February 26–27, 1907, no. 85 (as Dinnertime)]
Present whereabouts unknown
Exhibitions
1907a Century Association
Century Association, New York, Memorial Exhibition of Eastman Johnson, February 9–13, 1907, [possibly, as Dinner Time in Old Virginia].References
AAA 1907b
Catalogue of Finished Pictures, Studies, and Drawings by the Late Eastman Johnson, N.A. New York: American Art Association, February 1907. Sale catalogue, n.p., no. 85, as Dinnertime.Douglass 1999
Douglass, Julie M. "Lifetime Exhibition History." In Eastman Johnson: Painting America, by Teresa A. Carbone and Patricia Hills. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. Exhibition catalogue, p. 266 [possibly, as Dinner Time in Old Virginia].Keywords
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Record last updated April 7, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Dinnertime, c.1862–65 (Hills no. 9.2.2)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=95 (accessed on April 26, 2024).