EASTMAN JOHNSON (1824-1906)

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Lot 224 | EASTMAN JOHNSON (1824-1906)
EASTMAN JOHNSON (1824-1906)

Cardplay at the Camp

signed 'E. Johnson' (lower right)

oil on canvas

18 7⁄8 x 29 in. (47.9 x 73.6 cm.)

Painted circa 1861-65.





Provenance

The artist.

Mrs. Eastman Johnson, New York, by bequest, 1906.

Sale: American Art Association, New York, 26-27 February 1907, no. 70, sold by the above.

A.M. Henry, acquired from the above.

Francis P. Garvan, New York.

Estate of the above.

Frazier Gallery, New York, 1937.

Private collection, Wheatley Hills, New York, by 1949.

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman, Detroit, Michigan, by 1955.

Wildenstein and Co., New York.

Dr. and Mrs. Irving Levitt, New York, 1971.

Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, 1971.

Acquired by the late owners from the above, 1974.



Literature

"Eastman Johnson Sale," American Art News, vol. 5, no. 20, March 2, 1907.

J.I.H. Baur, Eastman Johnson: 1824-1906, exhibition catalogue, Brooklyn, New York, 1940, p. 62, no. 44 (as Maple Sugar Campfire, Fryeburg Maine).

C. Burrows, "Art of the Week: Some Shows that Count," New York Herald Tribune, June 6, 1948, p. D5.

J. Lipman, The Collector in America, New York, 1969, p. 239.

P.C. Johnston, Eastman Johnson's Lake Superior Indians, Afton, Minnesota, 1983, p. 36.

M.A. Erhardt, E. Broun, The Norma Lee and Martin Funger Art Collection, Lunenberg, Vermont, 1999, pp. 14-15, illustrated.



Exhibited

New York, Century Association, Memorial Exhibition of Eastman Johnson, February 9-13, 1907 (as Sugaring Off, Card Playing).

New York, Frazier Gallery, Eastman Johnson, 1824-1906: Forerunner of Homer and Eakins, September-October 1937, p. 5, no. 14 (as Card Playing at Fryeburg).

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, A Century of American Landscape Painting, 1800 to 1900, January 19-February 25, 1938, p. 27, no. 29 (as Card Playing at Fryeburg).

Springfield, Massachusetts, Springfield Museum of Fine Arts, A Century of American Landscape Painting, March 8-28, 1938, p. 27, no. 24 (as Card Playing at Fryeburg).

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Life in America: A Special Loan of Exhibition Paintings Held during the Period of the New York World's Fair, April 24-October 29, 1939, p. 117, no. 156, illustrated (as Maple Sugar Campfire, Fryeburg, Maine).

New York, Wildenstein & Co., Eastman Johnson, 1948, no. 10 (as Maple Sugar Camp Fire, Fryeburg, Maine).

Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Denver, Colorado, Denver Museum of Art; San Diego, California, Fine Arts Gallery; Houston, Texas, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma Arts Center; Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum; Takoma, Washington, Takoma Art League; San Antonio, Texas, Witte Memorial Museum, Winslow Homer 1836-1910, Eastman Johnson 1824-1906, February 4, 1949-May 7, 1950, no. 14 (as Card Playing at Fryeburg, Maine or Maple Sugar Campfire, Fryeburg, Maine).

Detroit, Michigan, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Collection in Progress: Selections from the Lawrence and Barbara Fleischman Collection of American Art, September 29-October 30, 1955, p. 14, no. 8, illustrated (as Card Playing at Fryeburg, Maine).

Tucson, Arizona, University of Arizona Art Gallery, Selections from the Lawrence A. and Barbara Fleischman Collection of American Art, February 1-March 29, 1964, pp. 23, 60, no. 57, illustrated (as Card Playing at Fryeburg, Maine).

New York, Kennedy Galleries, Inc., American Masters: 18th and 19th Centuries, March 22-April 8, 1972, p. 45, no. 42, illustrated.

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Eastman Johnson Retrospective Exhibition, March 28-May 14, 1972, pp. xix, 44, no. 31, illustrated (as Card Playing at Fryeburg).

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian American Art Museum; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Civil War and American Art, November 16, 2012-September 2, 2013, pp. 193, 194, 296, no. 65, illustrated (as Card Players, Fryeburg, Maine).



Further Details

This work is included as Hills number 13.5.11 in the Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné (eastmanjohnson.org) by Dr. Patricia Hills and Abigael MacGibeny.
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