Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
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Photo: Free Library of Philadelphia, Print and Picture Collection
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46.0 Self-Portrait Drawings
Over the course of his career, Johnson did relatively few drawings of himself. He preferred to use himself as a subject for his oils. Along with the oils, the drawings give a chronological progression of how he looked and what affect he wanted to convey in the different decades. —PH
Hills no. 46.0.3
Baur no. 322
Self-Portrait
Alternate titles: Eastman Johnson—Self Portrait; Self Portrait
c.1870–79
Pencil and charcoal on white paper
11 5/8 x 9 1/8 in. (29.5 x 23.2 cm)
Signed lower left on shoulder: E. Johnson; lower left at edge, not in Johnson's hand [not visible in photograph]: Self Portrait
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Provenance
Exhibitions
Kennedy Galleries, New York, Charcoal Drawings of Eminent Americans by Eastman Johnson, June 1920. (Exhibition catalogue: Kennedy Galleries 1920), no. 20, as Eastman Johnson—Self Portrait.
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824–1906, January 18, 1939–February 26, 1940. (Exhibition catalogue: Baur 1940), no. 322, as Eastman Johnson—Self Portrait.
References
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Charcoal Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1920. Exhibition catalogue (1920 Kennedy Galleries), p. 6, no. 20, as Eastman Johnson—Self Portrait.
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), pp. 34, 75, no. 322, as Self Portrait.
Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): March 29, 1971
Examination notes: Short strokes. Good.
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Johnson, Jonathan Eastman
Biography:
Jonathan Eastman Johnson (1824–1906). American portrait and genre painter. Son of Philip Carrigan Johnson and Mary Kimball Chandler Johnson; brother of Reuben, Judith, Mary, Philip, Sarah, Harriet, and Eleanor. Married Elizabeth Williams Buckley (m. 1869); father of Ethel (1870–1931).
Johnson, Jonathan Eastman
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Record last updated March 29, 2022. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Self-Portrait, c.1870–79 (Hills no. 46.0.3)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=979 (accessed on April 26, 2024).