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Self-Portrait
Inscriptions
Inscribed and signed recto, bottom-left through bottom-right, in brown paint: "New York/ May 1889/ To Geo. P. A. Healy. From his Friend Eastman Johnson".
Provenance
The artist, New York, May 1889; given to George Peter Alexander Healy (1813–1894), Paris and Chicago, May 1889 [painting inscribed on bottom: "New York / May 1889 / To Geo. P. A. Healy. From his Friend Eastman Johnson"]; by descent to his wife, Louisa Healy (1818–1905; born Louisa Phipps, also Mrs. George P.A. Healy), Chicago, June 1894; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1905.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Portraits of Men, Women, and Children, Jan. 2–15, 1895, cat. 188, as Eastman Johnson. Chicago, Illinois, South Park Commissioner Exhibition, Feb. 1909. Whitney Museum of American Art, Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition, Mar. 28–May 14, 1972, cat. 107; Detroit Institute of Arts, June 7–July 22, 1972; Cincinnati Art Museum, Aug. 15–Sept. 30, 1972; Milwaukee Art Center, Oct. 20–Dec. 3, 1972. Art Institute of Chicago, Junior Museum: America and the Artist, Aug. 1, 1975–July 9, 1978, no cat.
Publications
Halsey Colley Ives and Moses P. Handy, Official Catalogue of Exhibits: World's Columbian Exposition: Department K. Fine Arts, part 10, exh. cat. (W.B. Conkey, 1893), 20, cat. 624, as My Portrait. Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Portraits of Men, Women and Children, exh. cat. (The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1894), 45, 93, cat. 188, as Eastman Johnson. William M. R. French, Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings, and Other Objects (Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), 199, cat. 310, as Portrait of the Artist. "Works of American Artists in the Collection of the Art Institute," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 4, no. 1 (July, 1910), 8–9, as Portrait of the artist, https://www.jstor.org/stable/4116819. William M. R. French, Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), 137, cat. 309, as Portrait of the Artist. George William Eggers, Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Architecture (Art Institute of Chicago, 1917), 157, cat. 526, as Portrait of the Artist. George William Eggers, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings: Part II: Paintings and Drawings, vo. 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), 53, cat. 526, as Eastman Johnson (Portrait). Robert B. Harshe, Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings: Part II: Paintings, vol. 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), 57, cat. 526, as Eastman Johnson (Portrait). John I. H. Baur, An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824–1906 exh. cat. (Brooklyn Museum, 1940), 69, cat. 208. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 248. Patricia Hills, Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition, exh. cat. (Clarkson N. Potter, 1972), 112, cat. 107 (ill.). Patricia Hills, "Self-Portrait, 1889, May (Hills no. 32.2.11)," Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné, accessed Aug. 5, 2021, https://www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=694, (ill.).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Eastman Johnson (American, 1824–1906)
- Date
- 1889
- Medium
- Oil on canvas on panel
- Dimensions
- 45.7 × 35.2 cm (18 × 13 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Place
- New York City
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. George P.A. Healy
- Accession no.
- 1905.54
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