Eastman Johnson Painting America
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Teresa A. Carbone invited Patricia Hills to be co-author for the scholarly catalogue of an exhibition Carbone was curating for the Brooklyn Museum in 1999. Carbone contributed two essays, Hills contributed one essay and other essays were authored by Jane Weiss, Sarah Burns, and Anne C. Rose. Rizzoli International Publications distributed the trade edition.
Johnson (1824–1905) was the leading American genre painter during the 1860s, painting themes relating to the Civil War and to the community of the maple sugar industry in Maine. During the 1870s he turned his attention to domestic life, especially children and women in interiors and gardens, as well as to scenes of Nantucket where he summered. During the 1880s he was primarily engaged in painting portraits of civic leaders, clergymen, industrialists, financiers, and their families. He was also commissioned to paint portraits of three US presidents from life. The exhibition and its catalogue bring new scholarship to Johnson’s 1850s sojourn in The Netherlands, his scenes of Black Americans, his portraits of women, and his relationship to Winslow Homer. (PH)
Eastman Johnson: Painting America. Co-author with Teresa A. Carbone. New York: Brooklyn Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. In 2000 awarded the Henry Allen Moe Prize for the most outstanding catalogue published in New York State in 1999.
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