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EASTMAN JOHNSON (1824-1906)

Lot 410
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ID 1540463
Lot 410 | EASTMAN JOHNSON (1824-1906)
Estimate value
$ 400 000 – 600 000
EASTMAN JOHNSON (1824-1906)
Cranberry Pickers
signed with initials 'E.J.' (lower right)
oil on board
22 ½ x 26 ½ in. (57.2 x 67.3 cm.)
Painted circa 1876-79.




Provenance

Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York, 1958.
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, New York, acquired from the above, 1966.
By descent to the late owner.



Literature

(Possibly) F. Fowler, "Eastman Johnson—His Life and Works," Scribner's Magazine, vol. XL, no. 2, August 1906, p. 256 (as The Cranberry Pickers).
P. Hills, The Genre Painting of Eastman Johnson: The Sources and Development of His Style and Themes, New York, 1977, pp. 151, 240, fig. 102, illustrated.
M. Simpson, The Rockefeller Collection of American Art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, exhibition catalogue, San Francisco, California, 1994, pp. 20, 21, fig. 5, illustrated.



Exhibited

(Possibly) New York, The Union League Club, American Paintings, January 11-13, 1900 (as The Cranberry Pickers).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art; Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts; Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Center, Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition, March 28-December 3, 1972, p. 96, no. 85, illustrated.
San Diego, California, Timken Art Gallery; San Francisco, California, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; New Haven, Connecticut, Yale University Art Museum, The Cranberry Harvest, Island of Nantucket: 25th Anniversary Exhibition, April 15-December 9, 1990, pp. 25, 62, 113, no. 9, pl. 9, illustrated.
Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art; San Diego, California, Museum of Fine Arts; Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Eastman Johnson: Painting America, October 29, 1999-September 10, 2000, pp. 100, 104, no. 57, illustrated.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, In Private Hands: 200 Years of American Painting, October 1, 2005-January 8, 2006.



Further Details

This work is included as Hills number 26.5.6 in the Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné (eastmanjohnson.org) by Dr. Patricia Hills and Abigael MacGibeny.
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