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Property from the Collection of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Rhode Island

Eastman Johnson

The New England Kitchen

Live auction begins on:

January 24, 05:00 PM GMT

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

Bid

20,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Collection of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Rhode Island

Eastman Johnson

1824 - 1906


The New England Kitchen

signed with the initials E.J (lower right)

oil on paper laid down on panel

17 ½ by 22 ⅛ in.

44.5 by 56.2 cm.


This work is recorded as number 12.0.1 in the Eastman Johnson Online Catalogue Raisonné.

Estate of the Artist

American Art Association, New York, 27 February 1907, lot 115

Mr. William Brown Cogswell, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Cora Browning Cogswell, New York (acquired by descent from the above in 1921)

Florence Pearl and Elizabeth C. Browning, Syracuse, New York (acquired by descent from the above in 1936)

Kende Galleries, New York, 7 January 1943, lot 20

Private Collection, East Haddam, Connecticut

Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York

Philip and Charlotte Hanes, Winston-Salem, North Carolina (acquired from the above in 1971)

Sotheby's, New York, 5 April 2012, lot 45 (consigned by the above)

Questroyal Fine Art, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Acquired from the above in September 2012 by the present owner

New York, Century Association, Memorial Exhibition of Eastman Johnson, February 1907

New York, The Douthitt Gallery, Eastman Johnson: The Keystone Artist, March - April 1940, no. 14

New York, Whitney Museum of Art; The Detroit Institute of Arts and Cincinnati Art Museum (and traveling), Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition, March - December 1972, no. 41, p. 37, illustrated

Kennedy Galleries, Catalogue of Finished Pictures, Studies, and Drawings by the Late Eastman Johnson, New York, 1920, p. 13

John I. H. Baur, An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824-1906. Brooklyn, 1940, no. 125, p. 65

Kende Galleries, Paintings: American, English and European Schools from the Collection of the Late Leon Hirsch, Property of Mrs. Frederic J. Merrick, and Other Sources, New York, 1943, no. 20, p. 18, illustrated

Everett Uberto Crosby, Eastman Johnson at Nantucket: His Paintings and Sketches of Nantucket People and Scenes, Nantucket, 1944, c.58, p. 19

Patricia Hills, Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition, New York, 1972, no. 41, p. 37, illustrated

Teresa A. Carbone and Patricia Hills, Eastman Johnson: Painting America, Brooklyn, 1999, fig. 71, p. 170, illustrated