All Jonathan Eastman Johnson's oil paintings
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84305 Fiddling His Way Fiddling His Way Oil on canvas - 24.35 x 36.25 in - 1866 - Scanned from Eastman Johnson: Painting America - fig 78 pg 149 cyf
31695 La famille Hatch La famille Hatch mk75 1871 Huile sur toile:122x186.4cm
4219 The Cranberry Harvest on the Island of Nantucket The Cranberry Harvest on the Island of Nantucket 1880 Timken Art Gallery, San Diego
84353 The Lord is my Shepard The Lord is my Shepard Oil on wood -16.625 x 13.125 in - c 1863 cyf
4218 The Old Stagecoach The Old Stagecoach 1871 Milwaukee Art Museum
Jonathan Eastman Johnson
1824-1906 Jonathan Eastman Johnson Galleries Eastman Johnson (July 29, 1824 - April 5, 1906) was an American painter, and Co-Founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance. Best known for his genre paintings, paintings of scenes from everyday life, and his portraits both of everyday people, he also painted portraits of prominent Americans such as Abraham Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His later works often show the influence of the 17th century Dutch masters whom he studied while living in The Hague, and he was even known as The American Rembrandt in his day. Johnson's style is largely realistic in both subject matter and in execution. His original photorealistic charcoal sketches were not strongly influenced by period artists, but are informed more by his lithography training. Later works show influence by the 17th century Dutch and Flemish masters, and also by Jean François Millet. Echoes of Millet's The Gleaners can be seen in Johnson's The Cranberry Harvest, Island of Nantucket although the emotional tone of the work is far different. His careful portrayal of individuals rather than stereotypes enhances the realism of his paintings. Ojibwe artist Carl Gawboy notes that the faces in the 1857 portraits of Ojibwe people by Johnson are recognizable in people in the Ojibwe community today. Some of his paintings such as Ojibwe Wigwam at Grand Portage display near photorealism long before the photorealism movement but in keeping with the American tradition of realism that can be seen in the works of Charles Willson Peale whose painting The Stairway Group is said to have fooled George Washington. His careful attention to light sources contributes to the realism. Portraits Girl and Pets and The Boy Lincoln make use of single light sources in a manner that echoes the 17th Century Dutch Masters. . Related Artists to : | Mario Dei Fiori | Robert Charles Laurens Gustave Mols | Monticelli, Adolphe-Joseph | William blair bruce | Henri-Pierre Picou |