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Eastman Johnson Sugar Camp oil painting on canvas
Sugar Camp
Painting ID::  74812
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Eastman Johnson Sugar Camp oil painting on canvas



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  Eastman Johnson
  American portrait and genre painter, 1824-1906 American painter and printmaker. Between 1840 and 1842 he was apprenticed to the Boston lithographer John H. Bufford (1810-70). His mastery of this medium is apparent in his few lithographs, of which the best known is Marguerite (c. 1865-70; Worcester, MA, Amer. Antiqua. Soc.). In 1845 he moved to Washington, DC, where he drew portraits in chalk, crayon and charcoal of prominent Americans, including Daniel Webster, John Quincy Adams and Dolly Madison (all 1846; Cambridge, MA, Fogg). In 1846 he settled in Boston and brought his early portrait style to its fullest development. His chiaroscuro charcoal drawings, of exceptional sensitivity, were remarkably sophisticated for an essentially self-trained artist. In 1848 he travelled to Europe to study painting at the D?sseldorf Akademie. During his two-year stay he was closely associated with Emanuel Leutze, and painted his first genre subjects
  Sugar Camp
  English: "The Sugar Camp (also known as Making Maple Sugar or Susan Ray's Maple Sugaring Kitchen)," oil on paperboard, by the American artist Eastman Johnson. 14 in. x 23 in. Yale University Art Gallery, gift of Teresa Heinz in memory of her husband H. John Heinz III, B.A. 1960. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn. Date circa 1861-1866 cyf

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