Husking Bee, Island of Nantucket

1. Eastman Johnson, New York, Jan-Feb. 1876 [lent to National Academy of Design 1876]. Napoleon Sarony (1821–1896), New York, by May 1878 [lent to Paris Exposition Universelle International 1878 and Chicago Inter–State Industrial Exposition 1882]. Potter (1826–1902) and Bertha Palmer (1849–1918; born Bertha Honoré, also Mrs. Potter Palmer), Chicago, 1889; by descent to his wife, Bertha Palmer, 1902 [lent to Art Institute of Chicago 1910]; by descent to her sons, Honoré Palmer (1874–1964) and Potter Palmer II (1875–1943), 1918; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, National Academy of Design, <em>Fifty-First Annual Exhibition</em>, Mar. 28–May 31, 1876, cat. 285.
• Philadelphia, Memorial Hall and Art Annex, <em>Centennial International Exhibition</em>, May 10–Nov. 10, 1876, cat. 249e, as <em>The Husking Bee</em> (organized by United States Centennial Commission, Philadelphia).
• Paris, France, Exposition Universelle International, <em>Exhibition des Oeuvres d’Art</em>, May 1–Oct. 10, 1878, cat. 69 as <em>Epis de Blés</em>.
• Chicago, <em>Inter–State Industrial Exposition of Chicago</em>, Sept. 1–Oct. 21, 1882, cat. 612, as <em>Corn Husking</em>.
• Union League Club of New York, <em>Loan Collection</em>, Nov. 14–16, 1889, cat. 19, as <em>Corn Husking</em>.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/2907/paintings-exhibited-at-the-opening-of-the-new-galleries-mcewen-munger-and-meritt-collections"><em>Paintings Exhibited at the Opening of the New Galleries</em></a>, Feb. 24–[?], 1890, cat. 245, as <em>Corn Husking</em>.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4456/paintings-from-the-collection-of-mrs-potter-palmer"><em>Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. Potter Palmer</em></a>, Aug. 1910, cat. 27, as <em>Corn Husking</em>.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/5592/a-survey-of-american-painting-from-the-permanent-collection-of-the-art-institute"><em>A Survey of American Painting from the Permanent Collection of the Art Institute</em></a>, July 21–Oct. 9, 1932, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
• Cambridge, MA, William Hayes Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, <em>Art in New England: New England Genre</em>, May 15–Sept. 1, 1939, cat. 17.
• NY, Brooklyn Museum, <em>An American Genre Painter, Eastman Johnson, 1824–1906</em>, Jan. 18–Feb 26, 1940, cat. 55, as <em>Corn Husking Bee</em>.
• Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie Institute, <em>Survey of American Painting</em>, Oct. 24–Dec. 15, 1940, cat. 121.
• Denver Art Museum, Chappell House Galleries, <em>Our American Heritage</em>, Mar. 7–Apr. 11, 1948, cat. 38.

• Eugene Benson, “Eastman Johnson,” <em>The Galaxy</em> VI (1868): 111.
• National Academy of Design, <em>Catalogue of the Fifty-First Annual Exhibition</em>, exh. cat. (National Academy of Design, 1876) cat. 285.
• “Representative Pictures at the Academy,” <em>Appleton’s</em> XV, no. 269 (April 15, 1876): 508–510.
• “The National Academy of Design,” <em>The Art Journal</em> 2 (1876): 159.
• Exposition Universelle Internationale, <em>Catalogue Officiel. Tome I: Groupe I, Oeuvres d’Art</em>, 3rd ed. (Imprimerie Nationale, 1878), 204, cat. 69, as <em>Epis de blés</em>.
• S. N. Carter, “Paintings at the Centennial Exhibition,” <em>The Art Journal</em> 2 (1876): 284, as <em>Husking Bee</em>, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/20568958">https://www.jstor.org/stable/20568958</a>.
• S. N. Carter, “The Academy Exhibition,” <em>The Art Journal</em> 4 (1878): 157–59, as <em>Corn Husking</em>, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/20569225">https://www.jstor.org/stable/20569225</a>.
• Lucy H. Hooper, “The Pictures at the Paris Exhibition. IV. The American Pictures,” <em>The Art Journal</em> 4 (1878): 348–350, as <em>Corn Husking</em>, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/20569288">https://www.jstor.org/stable/20569288</a>.
• “American Genre Painters: Eastman Johnson, Winslow Homer and the Rest,” <em>New York Times</em> (Aug. 25, 1878): 10, as <em>Corn Husking</em>.
• S.G.W. Benjamin, “A Representative American,” <em>The Magazine of Art</em> 5 (Nov., 1882): 485–490.
• <em>Illustrated Catalogue of the Art Hall of the Inter-State Industrial Exposition of Chicago</em>, exh. cat. (Rand, McNally, & Co., 1882), 78, cat. 612, as <em>Corn Husking</em>
• Clarence Cook, <em>Art and Artists of Our Time</em>, vol. 3 (Selmar Hess, 1888), 263.

Self-Portrait

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Portrait of Mrs. Jeremiah Chandler

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Self-Portrait

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Autograph Etchings by American Artists

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Magnolias on Light Blue Velvet Cloth

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Elizabeth Grant Bankson Beatty (Mrs. James Beatty) and Her Daughter Susan

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York Harbor, Coast of Maine

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Marcella's Resort

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