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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
Provenance
Likely Eastman Johnson estate/Mrs. Eastman Johnson, New York, 1906 (by bequest)
Albert Rosenthal, New Hope, Pennsylvania, until c. 1923 (likely by purchase from Mrs. Johnson in 1915)
The Free Library of Philadelphia, The Rosenthal Collection of Drawings by American Artists, c. 1923 (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. 20, as Eastman Johnson—Self Portrait.1939 Brooklyn Museum
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
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. 20, as Eastman Johnson—Self Portrait.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), 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 18, 2024).