Eastman Johnson

"Synopsis: Eastman Johnson was the most celebrated American genre painter of his era. Lionized during the 1860s and 1870s for his sensitive paintings of country life, his subjects were commonly haymakers and cornhuskers, cranberry pickers and maple sugar makers. Less well known is a series of paintings and drawings made early in his career of the native Ojibwe at Lake Superior. Painted in 1856 and 1857, Johnson's individual portraits and group scenes...

One of the most important painters of the 19th century, Eastman Johnson (1824-1906) produced a number of canvases that now stand as icons of American art. Works like his Negro Life at the South (1859), Fiddling His Way (1866). Not at Home (ca. 1873), and The Cranberry Harvest, Island of Nantucket (1880) are remarkable both for their artistic originality and for what they suggest about American culture of the period.This comprehensive volume accompanies...