Eastman Johnson (July 29, 1824- April 5, 1906); American painter and co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance. He studied at Düsseldorf, Paris, Rome and The Hague, the last city being his home for four years. The painting measures 16 5/8 x 13 1/8 in. It was painted in Washington, D.C. and is now owned by the New York Public Library, on permanent loan to the New-York Historical Society. The darkest skin belongs to the woman dancing with the child in the middle foreground. File:Eastman Johnson - The Lord Is My Shepherd - Google Art Project.jpg Licensing [ edit ] This is a faithful photographic reproduction of an original two-dimensional work of art. President Abraham Lincoln had recently authorized organization of the United States Colored Troops. Jonathan Eastman Johnson (lahir 29 Juli 1824 – meninggal 5 April 1906 pada umur 81 tahun) adalah seorang pelukis Amerika dan salah satu pendiri Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, dengan namanya tertulis di pintu masuknya. Born in Lovell, Maine, Eastman Johnson moved to Washington, D.C., in 1845, when his father accepted a major clerkship in the Navy Department. Introduction . Enter your search terms. Eastman Johnson (July 29, 1824- April 5, 1906); American painter and co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance. [3][4], Negro Life at the South is considered Johnson's masterpiece, and it gained attention at its first exhibit among more than 800 works at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1859. Jun 9, 2020 - Explore J. Sampson Antiques's board "Eastman Johnson", followed by 184 people on Pinterest. Media related to The Cranberry Harvest by Eastman Johnson at Wikimedia Commons; This article about a nineteenth-century painting is a stub. Find more prominent pieces of portrait at Wikiart.org – best visual art database. Its imagery includes an African-American man reading the first part of a Bible, possibly the Book of Exodus. The first review noted the painting was set in Washington, DC, but it soon became popularly known as Old Kentucky Home, after Home Journal used this title in a feature article about it. He studied at Düsseldorf, Paris, Rome and The Hague, the last city being his home for four years. Home » Collection » Johnson, Eastman. In several of these images—Old ‘The Chimney Corner’ was created in 1863 by Eastman Johnson in Realism style. 96 Eastman Johnson (American, 1824-1906) Confidence and Admiration 1859, A study from Negro Life at the South, (Old Kentucky Home), signed lower left "E. Johnson 1859", oil on canvas, 14 x 12 in. This, however, is in my opinion not mainly due to its “abstract” aesthetic value, even granting that this value may be considerable, if not even great. Southerners associated it with plantation life and noted that the Negroes seemed cheerful in their leisure time. Jonathan 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. The inscription on the back of Eastman Johnson’s A Ride for Liberty—The Fugitive Slaves records the painting’s “eyewitness” source on a Civil War battleground. 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. Eastman Johnson was an American painter, and Co-Founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, with his name inscribed at its entrance. És conegut per les seves pintures de gènere, per les seves pintures costumistes d'escenes de la vida quotidiana, i pels seus retrats tant de la gent comuna, com pels que també va pintar de nord-americans rellevants, com ara Abraham … JOHNSON, Eastman, artist, b. in Lovell, Me., 29 July, 1824. イーストマン・ジョンソン（Jonathan Eastman Johnson、1824年 7月29日 - 1906年 4月5日）は、アメリカ合衆国の画家である。 アメリカの画家のうちヨーロッパに留学した初期の画家の一人で、風景画、肖像画を描き、アメリカ南部の人々の生活を描いた。 and is on display at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[1]. In 1860 he was elected to the National Academy of Design, New York. Eastman Johnson (1824–1906) Alternative names: Jonathan Eastman Johnson: Description: American painter and photographer: Date of birth/death: 29 July 1824 5 April 1906 Location of birth/death: Lovell (Maine) New York City: Work location: Category:New York, … You can help Wikipedia by expanding it This page was last edited on 10 February 2021, at 18:11 (UTC). 100 0 _ ‎‡a Eastman Johnson ‏ ‎‡c American artist (1824-1906) ‏ 100 1 _ ‎‡a Johnson, Eastman ‏ 100 1 _ ‎‡a Johnson, Eastman ‏ ‎‡d 1824-1906 ‏ 100 1 _ ‎‡a Johnson, Eastman ‏ ‎‡g American painter, 1824-1906 ‏ Patricia Hills. Just wait until the images come form the Tweed Musuem! [1][2] Johnson also created two versions of the painting in the 1870s, now owned by the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. Eastman Johnson (29 de juliol de 1824 - 5 d'abril de 1906) va ser un pintor nord-americà i cofundador del Museu Metropolità d'Art de Nova York, amb el seu nom escrit a l'entrada. イーストマン・ジョンソン（Jonathan Eastman Johnson、1824年 7月29日 - 1906年 4月5日）は、アメリカ合衆国の画家である。 アメリカの画家のうちヨーロッパに留学した初期の画家の一人で、風景画、肖像画を描き、アメリカ南部の人々の生活を描いた。 [2], Its seemingly contradictory elements have implications that have been interpreted at length. Description. [5] Subsequent coverage mostly overlooked that Johnson's painting was of an urban "back street" scene from Washington, D.C., believed to be next to the home of Johnson's father. Louis Agassiz was born in the village of Môtier (now part of Haut-Vully) in the Swiss canton of Fribourg. [6][2] The painting was interpreted by both proponents and detractors of slavery as supporting their position. He is sitting against a blue jacket, which may indicate service in the Union army. At the right edge, a young white woman in a refined white dress is stepping over a threshold into "black life in the interior of a city block.