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Boy Fishing

1860s

Eastman Johnson

(American, 1824-1906)

America, 19th century

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 23.5 x 19 cm (9 1/4 x 7 1/2 in.)

Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 358.1915

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed lower left: E Johnson

Provenance

H. B. Hurlbut, Cleveland (1880).

Citations

Strahan, Edward, ed. The Art Treasures of America: Being the Choicest Works of Art in the Public and Private Collections of North America. vol. 8. Philadelphia: Gebbie & Barrie, 1879. Mentioned: p. 74

Baur, John I. H. An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824-1906. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1940. Mentioned: p. 64, no. 100

Cleveland Museum of Art. "A Check List: American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in The Cleveland Museum of Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 60:1 (January, 1973). pp. 1-36. Mentioned: p. 29, cat. 114

Placidi, Kathleen S. "Beyond Bootblacks: The Boat Builder and the Art of John George Brown." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art. 77:10 (December, 1990). pp. 366-382. Reproduced:

Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. Reproduced: p. 117

Exhibition history

Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Inaugural Exhibition of The Cleveland Museum of Art (6 June-20 September 1916), listed p. 128, no. 29 as The Fisherman.

Akron, Akron Art Institute, A Survey of Nineteenth-Century American Paintings (2 November-15 December 1959).

Coshocton, Ohio, The Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum, American Paintings 1825-1915 From The Clevland Musuem of Art, (7 July-1 November 1979), cat. not numbered, illus. on front cover.

Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).

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