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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
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Hills no. 45.1.28
Baur no. 341
Marshall Pepoon
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston title: Portrait of Mr. Pepsoon
Alternate titles: Marshall; Mr. Pepoon
c.1877
Charcoal on gray-brown paper heightened with white
24 1/8 x 19 3/4 in. (61.3 x 50.2 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. 35, as
Mr. Pepoon.
M. Knoedler & Co, New York, Paintings and Drawings by Eastman Johnson, January 7–26, 1946. (Exhibition catalogue: M. Knoedler & Co. 1946), no. 16, as
Mr. Pepoon. Traveled to: The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, March 1946 (California Palace 1946).
References
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Charcoal Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York:
Kennedy Galleries,
1920.
Exhibition catalogue (1920 Kennedy Galleries), p. 8, no. 35, as
Mr. Pepoon.
Bolton, Theodore. Early American Portrait Draughtsmen in Crayon. New York:
F. F. Sherman,
1923, p. 40, no. 34, as
Mr. Pepoon.
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. 341, as
Mr. Pepoon.
Paintings and Drawings by Eastman Johnson. New York:
M. Knoedler & Co.,
1946.
Exhibition catalogue (1946 M. Knoedler & Co.), n.p., no. 16, as
Mr. Pepoon.
M. & M. Karolik Collection of American Water Colors & Drawings, 1800–1875. Vol. 1. Boston:
Museum of Fine Arts,
1962.
Exhibition catalogue, p. 206, no. 413, as
Portrait of Mr. Pepsoon.
Hills Examination/Opinion
Examination date(s): March 7, 2018
Sitter Biography
Sitter: Pepoon, Marshall
Biography: Marshall Pepoon (1813–1877). Banker and broker. Member of the Century Association, 1859–1877.
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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. "Marshall Pepoon, c.1877 (Hills no. 45.1.28)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=991 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
