Self-Portrait by Eastman Johnson
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Self-Portrait

Eastman Johnson · 1889

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. 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.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Loan Exhibition of Portraits of Men, Women, and Children</em>, Jan. 2–15, 1895, cat. 188, as <em>Eastman Johnson</em>.
  • Chicago, Illinois, South Park Commissioner Exhibition, Feb. 1909.
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, <em>Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition</em>, 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, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/6679/junior-museum-america-and-the-artist"><em>Junior Museum: America and the Artist</em></a>, Aug. 1, 1975–July 9, 1978, no cat.

Literature

Published references

  • Halsey Colley Ives and Moses P. Handy, <em>Official Catalogue of Exhibits: World's Columbian Exposition: Department K. Fine Arts</em>, part 10, exh. cat. (W.B. Conkey, 1893), 20, cat. 624, as <em>My Portrait</em>.
  • <em>Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Portraits of Men, Women and Children</em>, exh. cat. (The Antiquarian Society of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1894), 45, 93, cat. 188, as <em>Eastman Johnson</em>.
  • William M. R. French, <em>Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings, and Other Objects</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), 199, cat. 310, as <em>Portrait of the Artist</em>.
  • "Works of American Artists in the Collection of the Art Institute," <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 4, no. 1 (July, 1910), 8–9, as <em>Portrait of the artist</em>, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4116819">https://www.jstor.org/stable/4116819</a>.
  • William M. R. French, <em>Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), 137, cat. 309, as <em>Portrait of the Artist</em>.
  • George William Eggers, <em>Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture and Architecture</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1917), 157, cat. 526, as <em>Portrait of the Artist</em>.
  • George William Eggers, <em>Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings: Part II: Paintings and Drawings</em>, vo. 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), 53, cat. 526, as <em>Eastman Johnson (Portrait)</em>.
  • Robert B. Harshe, <em>Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings: Part II: Paintings</em>, vol. 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), 57, cat. 526, as <em>Eastman Johnson (Portrait)</em>.
  • John I. H. Baur, <em>An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824–1906</em> exh. cat. (Brooklyn Museum, 1940), 69, cat. 208.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, <em>Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 248.
  • Patricia Hills, <em>Eastman Johnson: Retrospective Exhibition</em>, exh. cat. (Clarkson N. Potter, 1972), 112, cat. 107 (ill.).
  • Patricia Hills, "<em>Self-Portrait</em>, 1889, May (Hills no. 32.2.11)," <em>Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné</em>, accessed Aug. 5, 2021, <a href="https://www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=694"> https://www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=694</a>, (ill.).

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