february 18–april 18, 2004
Checklist
Works by eastman johnson
Sugaring Off at the Camp, Fryeburg, Maine
c. 1861-65
Oil on canvas
19 3/4 x 34 in.
Curtis Galleries, Minneapolis
The Sap Gatherers
c. 1861-66
Oil on canvas
14 x 17 in.
Private collection, Glen Ridge, New Jersey
The Truants (The Shelter)
c. 1870
Oil on paperboard
23 3/8 x 37 in.
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Museum Purchase, William A. Clark Fund, Gallery Fund and through the gift of Louise S. Thompson
At the Camp:
Spinning Yarns and Whittling
c. 1861-65
Oil on paperboard
19 x 23 in.
Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York
Sugaring Off
c. 1865
Oil on canvas
52 3/4 x 96 1/2 in.
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. Museum Works of Art Fund
Sugaring Off
c. 1861-65
Oil on canvas
34 x 54 in.
The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California. Gift of the Virginia Steele Scott Foundation
Party in the Maple Sugar Camp
c. 1861-66
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 in.
Private collection. Courtesy of Thomas Colville Fine Art,
New York
Making Maple Sugar
c. 1861-65
Oil on paperboard
14 x 23 in.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. Gift of Teresa Heinz in memory of her husband, H. John Heinz III,
B.A. 1960
Measurement and Contemplation
c. 1861-65
Oil on paperboard
20 1/4 x 24 in.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Bequest of Martha C. Karolik for the M. and M. Karolik Collection of American Paintings,
1815-1865
At the Maple Sugar Camp
c. 1861-65
Oil on canvasboard
12 1/4 x 15 1/4 in.
Private collection
The Eavesdropper
c. 1870
Oil on paperboard
12 1/8 x 15 1/8 in.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd
Tasting the Sugar
c. 1870-73
Oil on canvas
17 x 21 in.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Gift of Sandra and
Jacob Y. Terner
The Storyteller of the Camp
c. 1861-65
Oil on paperboard
22 3/4 x 26 3/4 in.
Reynolda House, Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Original Purchase Fund from the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, Z. Smith Reynolds, ARCA, and Anne Cannon Forsyth
A Study in Reds:
Morning News at Camp
c. 1861-65
Oil on paperboard
13 x 22 in.
Franklin Y. Hundley, Jr
Down East Courtship
c. 1861-65
Oil on paperboard
15 3/8 x 12 7/8 in.
The Peabody Collection, Courtesy of the Maryland Commission on Artistic Property of the Maryland State Archives
Other works in the exhibition
Maple Syrup Pitchers and Cans
Late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Collection of Robert Coombs
Stereographs of Maple Sugaring
Late nineteenth century
Albumen print sterographs
Various sizes
Collection of Robert Coombs
Nathaniel Currier, after Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait
American, 1813-1888
American Forest Scene. Maple Sugaring
1856
Lithograph
18 1/2 x 27 in.
The Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, New York
Currier & Ives
American Publisher, 1834-1907
Maple Sugaring:
The Early Spring in the Northern Woods
1872
Lithograph
8 1/2 x 12 7/16 in.
The Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, New York
Tompkins Matteson
American, 1813-1884
Sugaring Off
c. 1850
Hand-colored steel engraving
5 x 7 1/4 in.
Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York
Souvenir Postcards Depicting Old-Fashioned Maple Sugaring
Late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
Various sizes
Private collection
Photographs of Maple Sugaring
c. 1900
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont