Home and Warmth

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Artist Eastman Johnson(American, 1824–1906)American, 1824–1906

CultureAmerican

Titles

Home and Warmth

Date1863

PlaceUnited States

MediumOil on academy board

Dimensions9 1/2 × 11 7/8 in. (24.1 × 30.2 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. W. Bryan Trammel, Jr., in memory of James Harper Gordon

Object number77.336

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Department

American Art

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PAINTING

ProvenanceA. C. Ludington Collection; Dr. P. J. Oettinger Collection; Goupil Gallery, New York; John Anderson Jr. Collection; Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, New York, by 1939; Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, Dec. 6-7, 1939, Important Examples of Modern Art: Distinguished Paintings by Artists of Other Schools; the Entire Collection of Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan, New York, lot 99; James Fosburgh, by 1971; Meredith Long & Co Gallery, Houston; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1977, by purchase.
Exhibition HistoryCentury Association, New York, Memorial Exhibition of Eastman Johnson, Feb. 9-13, 1907, [possibly as "Red Hot Stove"]
Published References Baur, John I. H. An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824-1906, Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1940 (1939 Brooklyn Museum), p. 65, no. 110 as "Home and Warmth." Dr. Patricia Hills, eastmanjohnson.org, est. 2021

Catalogue raisonnéHills No. 21.1.5, eastmanjohnson.org

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