Wigwams
Type:Painting
Year:1869
Size:8.63" x 10.88"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed and Dated
Notes:
Alternate title: Kentucky Mountain Corn Signed and dated lower right: E. Johnson / July / 1869 Titled verso in ink: Kentucky Mountain Corn
Eastman Johnson ART FOR SALE
1824 Lovell, Maine - 1906 New York City. Known for: Portrait, genre-figure, and landscape painting.
A native of Lovell, Maine and raised in Augusta, Eastman Johnson earned a reputation as a renowned painter of sentimental genre. His father operated a tavern in Lovell and also built homes there... Read full biography
A native of Lovell, Maine and raised in Augusta, Eastman Johnson earned a reputation as a renowned painter of sentimental genre. His father operated a tavern in Lovell and also built homes there before moving the family to nearby Fryeburg in 1828. Again the father operated a hotel, which gave his... Read full biography
A native of Lovell, Maine and raised in Augusta, Eastman Johnson earned a reputation as a renowned painter of sentimental genre. His father operated a tavern in Lovell and also built homes there before moving the family to nearby Fryeburg in 1828. Again the father operated a hotel, which gave his young son much exposure to a variety of human beings and activities. When Eastman was ten, the family moved again, this time to Augusta, Maine, where Eastman became a clerk in a dry good store and... Read full biography
A native of Lovell, Maine and raised in Augusta, Eastman Johnson earned a reputation as a renowned painter of sentimental genre. His father operated a tavern in Lovell and also built homes there before moving the family to nearby Fryeburg in 1828. Again the father operated a hotel, which gave his young son much exposure to a variety of human beings and activities. When Eastman was ten, the family moved again, this time to Augusta, Maine, where Eastman became a clerk in a dry good store and where the family prospered. He went to Boston at age sixteen to train as a lithographer but shortly after returned to Augusta and built his art career on more familiar territory. From there he moved from town to town in the 1840s, making a living doing... Read full biography
A native of Lovell, Maine and raised in Augusta, Eastman Johnson earned a reputation as a renowned painter of sentimental genre. His father operated a tavern in Lovell and also built homes there before moving the family to nearby Fryeburg in 1828. Again the father operated a hotel, which gave his young son much exposure to a variety of human beings and activities. When Eastman was ten, the family moved again, this time to Augusta, Maine, where Eastman became a clerk in a dry good store and where the family prospered. He went to Boston at age sixteen to train as a lithographer but shortly after returned to Augusta and built his art career on more familiar territory. From there he moved from town to town in the 1840s, making a living doing crayon portraits in eastern cities including Washington D.C. where he used a Senate committee room. In 1849, he wen... Read full biography
Eastman Johnson - Art for Sale (2 available)
Crossing a Stream
Type:Painting
Year:1866
Size:21.00" x 17.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
PROVENANCE The artist. General Benjamin Rush Cowen, Washington, D.C.,1870s Mrs. William Wyatt Breckinridge, granddaughter of the above, Montrose, Alabama, by descent, by 1954 Mrs. J.A. Barnard, New York Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York