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EASTMAN JOHNSON | THE VOICE OF THE HARP

Auction Closed

June 26, 03:10 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

EASTMAN JOHNSON

1824 - 1906

THE VOICE OF THE HARP


signed E. Johnson. and dated 1872 (lower left)

oil on board

22 ¼ by 18 ¼ inches

(56.5 by 46.4 cm)


This painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Eastman Johnson's work being compiled by Patricia Hills. 

The artist

Judith Johnson Wilson (his sister)

Charlotte May Wilson (her daughter)

Virginia Wilson (her niece)

By descent to the present owner

Katherine Hoffman, Georgia O'Keeffe: A Celebration of Music and Dance, New York, 1997, p. 14

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, The Art of Music: American Paintings & Musical Instruments 1770-1910, July-September 1984, n.p.