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Photo: Grey Art Gallery, New York University
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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. 45.1.30
Lewis Morris Rutherfurd
Alternate titles: possibly Lewis M. Rutherford [sic]; Portrait of a Man, thought to be Lewis Morris Rutherfurd
c.1862–63
Charcoal heightened with white on paper
16 1/4 x 13 1/8 in. (41.3 x 33.3 cm)
Initialed lower right: E.J.
Markings
Inscribed on verso, lower right in pencil: WCA 1953
Provenance
Possibly Mrs. H. R. Rutherford [sic], Montreal, until October 12, 1956
M. Knoedler & Co., New York, October 12, 1956 until at least 1971
Dr. and Mrs. Julian B. Hyman, Teaneck, New Jersey, until 1982
Grey Art Gallery, New York University Art Collection, New York, 1982 (by gift)
Exhibitions
2005 Grey Art Gallery, NYU
Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, Multiple Identities: Portraits from the New York University Art Collection, January 11–April 2, 2005.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. 12, addendum “Paintings by Eastman Johnson" [possibly, as Lewis M. Rutherford].Grey Gazette 2005
Grey Gazette (New York) 8, no. 2 (Winter 2005).Sitter Biography
Sitter: Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris
Biography:
Lewis Morris Rutherfurd (1816–1892). Astronomer.
White, Terry James. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms, 1967–.
Rutherfurd, Lewis Morris
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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. "Lewis Morris Rutherfurd, c.1862–63 (Hills no. 45.1.30)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=995 (accessed on April 29, 2024).