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Joshua Johnson: Portrait of a Girl
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| Title |
English: Portrait of a Girl (Catherine Anne Bowen?) |
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| Genre |
portrait |
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| Description |
Joshua Johnson is the first documented African-American painter to work in the United States. He was a professional portrait painter who lived in Baltimore, Maryland. His birth and death dates, as well as place of birth and death, are unknown. |
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| Date | between circa 1810 and circa 1815 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on canvas | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | 61 x 50.1 cm (24 x 19 3/4 in.) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Accession number |
2007.133 (Harvard Art Museums) |
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| Place of creation |
United States of America |
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| Object history | Bertha Slattery Lieberman, Baltimore, MD; to her son William S. Lieberman, New York, NY; to Washburn Gallery, New York, NY, 1987-2005; Estate of William S. Lieberman, 2005-2007; his bequest to the Fogg Museum, 2007. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Exhibition history | Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter, Maryland Historical Society, 09/26/1987 - 01/03/1988; Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, 01/17/1988 - 05/15/1988; Whitney Museum of American Art, 06/18/1988 - 08/25/1988; Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, CT Branch, 09/09/1988 - 11/09/1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of William S. Lieberman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inscriptions | label: A paper label on the wooden backing of the frame reads: "FROM/FITZGERALD'S/Emporium of Fine Arts/No. 5 (5?) N. GAY STREET/ BALTIMORE." | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Carolyn J. Weekley, Stiles Tuttle Colwill, Leroy Graham, and Mary Ellen Hayward, Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter, exh. cat., Maryland Historical Society (Baltimore, MD, 1987), p. 150, cat. 63, ill. Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. and Melissa Renn, American Paintings at Harvard, Volume One: Paintings, Watercolors, and Pastels by Artists Born before 1826, Yale University Press and Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge and New Haven, 2014), p. 310, cat. 269, ill. |
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| Source/Photographer | https://americangallery.wordpress.com/category/johnson-joshua/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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