The Album
Eastman Johnson, American, 1824 - 1906
1859
Charcoal on wove paper
Sheet: 13 3/16 × 14 15/16 in. (33.5 × 38 cm)
Frame: 26 1/8 × 28 in. (66.4 × 71.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Katharine T. and Merrill G. Beede 1929 Fund
D.2003.17
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right: E. Johnson [slight traces of artist's initials, just below signature: E. J.]; inscribed, in graphite, lower margin: Dessine Par E. Johnson en 1859, Encadre a chez Mr[?] Goupil a New-york Par J. Labarriere [?] Juillet 5; [Drawn by E. Johnson in 1859 Framed at Mr. Goupil's in New York by J. Labarriere (?) July 5]; [additional, partially legible framing notations along lower and right edges of sheet]
Course History
SART 22, Figure Drawing, Edward del Rosario, Winter 2013
SART 22, Figure Drawing, Edward del Rosario, Winter 2014
SART 20, 71, Drawing II, III, Tom Ferrara, Spring 2015
SART 20/SART 71, Drawing II/Drawing III, Jack Wilson, Fall 2022
Exhibition History
American Masters, 18th and 19th Centuries, Kennedy Galleries, New York, New York, no. 41, March 22-April 8, 1972.
American Works on Paper to 1950: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 22-December 9, 2007.
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.
Publication History
Kennedy Galleries, New York, American Masters, 18th and 19th Centuries, March 22-April 8, 1972, 44, no. 41 (illus.).
David B. Dearinger, catalogue entry on The Art Lover in Abigail Booth Gerdts, Curator, An American Collection: Painting and Sculpture from the National Academy of Design, New York: National Academy of Design, 1989, no. 34.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 21, 41, 86, 254, ill. p. 87, no. 17.
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, American Art Review, Vol. XVII No. 2, April 2005, pp. 86-93, ill p. 87
Provenance
Kennedy Galleries, New York, 1972; Richard and Gloria Manney, New York; sold to private collection, Beverly Hills, California, 1999; consigned to Debra Force Fine Art, Inc., New York, New York, 2000; sold to present collection, 2003.
Catalogue Raisonne
Forthcoming Cat. Rais. by Patricia Hill.
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