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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, N.Y., National Academy of Design, Fifty-First Annual Exhibition, March-?, 1876, no. 285 as Husking Bee, Island of Nantucket, lent by Eastman Johnson.

Philadelphia, PA, International Exhibition of Fine Arts, 1876, no. 249e, as The Husking Bee, lent by Eastman Johnson.

Paris, France, Exposition Universelle International, Exhibition des Oeuvres d’Art, May 1-October 10, 1878, no. 69 as Epis de Ble, lent by Napoleon Sarony.

William Walton, “Eastman Johnson, Painter,” Scribner’s Magazine Vol. XL, no. 3 (September 1906), pp. 263-274.

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. Potter Palmer, August, 1910, no. 27, as Corn Husking.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Survey of American Painting from the Permanent Collection of the Art Institute, July 21-October 9, 1932.

Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University, William Hayes Fogg Art Museum, New England Genre, May 15-September 1, no. 17, ill.

Brooklyn Museum, N.Y., An American Genre Painter, Eastman Johnson, 1824-1906, January 18-February, 1940, no. 55, ill. pl. 32.

Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Institute, Survey of American Painting, October 24-December 15, 1940, no. 121.

Denver Art Museum, Chappell House Galleries, Our American Heritage, March 7-April 11, 1948, no. 38.

New York, N.Y., Whitney Museum of American Art, The Painters’ America: Rural and Urban Life, 1810-1910, September 20-November 10, 1974, no. 97; traveled to Houston Museum of Fine Arts, December 5, 1974-January 19, 1975; Oakland Museum, Calif., February 10-March 30, 1975.

Art Institute of Chicago, Art at The Time of the Centennial, June 19-August 8, 1976, no Catalogue or checklist published.

Kansas City, MO, William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kaleidescope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, December 2, 1977-January 22, 1978, no. 77, ill.

Santa Barbara, CA; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, for exhibit "New Work-New Visions", June 6-Aug 11, 1991.

Brooklyn Museum of Art "Eastman Johnson: Painting America" October 29, 1999-February 6, 2000, traveled to San Diego Museum of Art, February 25-May 21, 2000, Seattle Museum of Art, June 8-September 10, 2000.

Publication History

Eugene Benson, “Eastman Johnson,” The Galaxy VI (1868), p. 111.

“The National Academy of Design,” The Art Journal 2 (1876), p. 159.

“Paintings at the Centennial Exhibition,” The Art Journal 2 (1876), p. 284.

“The Pictures at the Paris Exhibition, IV: The American Pictures,” The Art Journal 4 (1878), pp. 348-350.

“Representative Pictures at the Academy,” Appleton’s XV, no. 269 (April 15, 1876), pp. 508-510.

S.G.W. Benjamin, “A Representative American,” The Magazine of Art V (1882), pp. 485-490.

Carroll Beckwith, “Eastman Johnson—His Life and Work,” Scribner’s Magazine XL (1906), p. 254.

Sadakichi Hartman, “Eastman Johnson: American Genre Painter,” The International Studio XXXIV (1908), p. 111.

John I. H. Baur, Eastman Johnson, 1824-1906: An American Genre Painter (Brooklyn Museum of The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1940), exh. cat.

Everett U. Crosby, Eastman Johnson on Nantucket: People and Scenes (Nantucket Island, Mass.: privately printed, 1944).

Patricia Hills, Eastman Johnson, exh. cat. (Whitney Museum of American Art / Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1972).

-----. The Genre Painting of Eastman Johnson: The Sources and Development of His Style and Themes (New York: Garland Press, 1977).

-----. The Painters’ America: Rural and Urban Life, 1810-1910, exh. cat. (The Whitney Museum of American Art/Praeger, 1974).

Sarah Burns, Pastoral Inventions: Rural Life in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989).

Marc Simpson, Sally Mills, and Patricia Hills, Eastman Johnson, The Cranberry Harvest, Island of Nantucket: 25th Anniversary Exhibition (San Diego, Calif.: Timken Art Gallery, 1990).

Judith A. Barter et al, American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998).

Ownership History

Eastman Johnson, New York, Jan.-Feb. 1876. Napoleon Saro, New York City,1878-1889. Potter (died 1902) and Bertha Palmer, Chicago, 1889-1902; by descent to Mrs. Potter Palmer (died 1918), 1902-1918; estate of Bertha H. Palmer, Chicago; 1918-1922; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago 1922.