Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné
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Photo: Courtesy of Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York
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45.1 U.S. Later Portrait Drawings, Men
When Johnson returned from Europe late in 1855 and moved in with his family in Washington, D.C., he began receiving portrait commissions. Like those done earlier, Johnson generally used charcoal (named in some records as black chalk) with touches of white and created a strong chiaroscuro for his sitters. Gradually he moved away from the strong chiaroscuro style he had been using, and his later portraits tend to be sketchier (as was the taste in art at the time) but no less professional. He used pastel to bring in color in some of these portraits. —PH
Hills no. 45.1.25
Baur no. 339
Stephen Payne Nash
Alternate titles: Stephan [sic] P. Nash; Stephen B. [sic] Nash; Stephen P. Nash, President of the Bar Association (1821–1898)
c.1880–82
Pastel
24 x 18 in. (61 x 45.7 cm)
Neither signed nor dated
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Exhibitions
Kennedy Galleries, New York, Charcoal Drawings of Eminent Americans by Eastman Johnson, June 1920. (Exhibition catalogue: Kennedy Galleries 1920), no. 33, as Stephen Payne Nash.
References
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Charcoal Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York: Kennedy Galleries, 1920. Exhibition catalogue (1920 Kennedy Galleries), p. 8, no. 33, as Stephen Payne Nash.
Bolton, Theodore. Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayon. New York: F. F. Sherman, 1923, p. 40, no. 33, as Stephen Payne Nash.
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. 76, no. 339, as Stephen B. [sic] Nash.
Hills Examination/Opinion
Examination date(s): March 31, 1971
Examination notes: Pale turquoise background. White whiskers and moustache. Looks to right. Black bowtie and coat. White shirt. Eyes cast down.
Nash, Stephen Payne
Keywords
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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. "Stephen Payne Nash, c.1880–82 (Hills no. 45.1.25)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=990 (accessed on May 1, 2025).