Lot Essay
This work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work being compiled by Dr. Patricia Hills.
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Eastman Johnson (1824-1906)
Study for "Ice Skater/Child Warming Hands in Studio"
Details
Eastman Johnson (1824-1906)
Study for "Ice Skater/Child Warming Hands in Studio"
signed with initials 'E.J.' (lower right)
oil on board
13¼ x 11½ in. (33.7 x 29.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1879.
Study for "Ice Skater/Child Warming Hands in Studio"
signed with initials 'E.J.' (lower right)
oil on board
13¼ x 11½ in. (33.7 x 29.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1879.
Provenance
The artist.
By descent.
[With]Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, 1977.
Private collection.
[With]Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1985.
By descent.
[With]Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, 1977.
Private collection.
[With]Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1985.
Literature
(Possibly) H.T. Tuckerman, Book of the American Artists: American Artist Life, New York, 1867, reprint 1967, p. 468 (as Girl by the Stove).
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., American Genre Painting in the Victorian Era: Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, and their Contemporaries, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1978, p. 42, no. 45, illustrated.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., American Genre Painting in the Victorian Era: Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, and their Contemporaries, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1978, p. 42, no. 45, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, The Union League Club, Eastman Johnson Retrospective, June 6-July 5, 1974, no. 17.
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., American Genre Painting in the Victorian Era: Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, and their Contemporaries, April 8-May 6, 1978, no. 45.
South Bend, Indiana, South Bend Art Center, American Masterpieces from the Warner Collection, December 9, 1989-February 4, 1990.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art, Drawn from Life: American Genre Paintings from the Birmingham Museum of Art and the Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art, October 29, 2006-January 3, 2007.
New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., American Genre Painting in the Victorian Era: Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, and their Contemporaries, April 8-May 6, 1978, no. 45.
South Bend, Indiana, South Bend Art Center, American Masterpieces from the Warner Collection, December 9, 1989-February 4, 1990.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art, Drawn from Life: American Genre Paintings from the Birmingham Museum of Art and the Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art, October 29, 2006-January 3, 2007.
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