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Joshua Johnson: Mrs. Abraham White, Jr., and Daughter Rose  wikidata:Q28810282 reasonator:Q28810282
Artist
Joshua Johnson  (1765–1830)  wikidata:Q958068
 
Alternative names
Joshua Johnston
Description American painter
African-American
Date of birth/death circa 1763
date QS:P,+1763-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
 circa  Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth West Indies
Work period between circa 1795 and circa 1825
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1795-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1825-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Work location
Baltimore Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q958068
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Title
English: Mrs. Abraham White, Jr., and Daughter Rose
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
This is an oil on canvas double portrait of a mother and child. The mother, a woman of about thirty, is seated on a Sheraton sofa; standing at her left side is a child of about two years of age. The mother has blue-gray eyes and light hair. She wears a high-waisted black dress with white muslin and lace guimpe, and with sleeves trimmed with white lace. In her right hand she holds a half opened book, and her left arm encircles the child. The child is turned slightly to the left toward her mother. She wears a high-waisted muslin dress trimmed about the neck with lace. Her right hand rests on her mother's shoulder and in her left hand she holds a bunch of strawberry leaves and berries. The sofa is covered with some dark material attached to the frame with brass-headed tacks. The background is gray.
Date circa 1808
date QS:P571,+1808-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
-09
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions Overall: 30 x 25 1/2 in. (76.2 x 64.8 cm) Overall, Frame: 35 x 30 1/8 x 2 in. (88.9 x 76.5 x 5.1 cm)
institution QS:P195,Q5114675
Current location
American Painting
Accession number
74.6.12 (Chrysler Museum of Art) Edit this at Wikidata
Place of creation Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Exhibition history

"American Naïve Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: 111 Masterpieces from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch," traveling exhibition by the American Federation of Arts, New York; Grand Palais, Paris, France, February 16 - April 18, 1968; Amerika House, Berlin, Germany, May 3 - June 10, 1968; Palazzo Collicola, Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto, Italy, June 28 - July 14, 1968; Royal Academy of Arts, London, England, September 6 - October 20, 1968; Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium, November 7 - December 29, 1968; Cason del Buen Ritiro, Madrid, Spain, January 15 - February 16, 1969; Palacio de La Virreina, Barcelona, Spain, February 21 - March 16, 1969; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, March 24 - April 27, 1969; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 12 - September 1, 1969; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, N.Y., September 15 - November 2, 1969; Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, Tex., November 16, 1969 - January 4, 1970; U.S. Military Academy Library, West Point, Va., January 22 - February 15, 1970; Nihombashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo, Japan, September 3 - 20, 1970. (Exh. cat. no. 32) "American Naïve Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: 22 Masterpieces from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch," Chrysler Art Museum, Provincetown, Mass., June 12 - July 29, 1970. (Exh. cat. no. 8) "Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum," Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Va., March 1 - July 4, 1976. (Exh. cat. p. 33, 46) "Images of Childhood from the Chrysler Museum," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., July 29 - September 16, 1990. "Regional American Painting to 1920," Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, S.C., November 6 - December 30, 1990. (Exh. cat. not paged) "Reopening of the Joan P. Brock Galleries," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., Opening in March of 2008.

"American Treasures at the Willoughby-Baylor House," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, January 2 - December 1, 2013.
Credit line Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch
References

J. Hall Pleasants, An Early Baltimore Negro Portrait Painter: Joshua Johnston (Walpole Society, 1940), 20, no. XII, 40-41. J. Hall Pleasants, "Joshua Johnston, The First American Negro Portrait Painter," Maryland Historical Magazine 37 (June 1942): 148. American Naïve Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: 111 Masterpieces from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, exh. cat., American Federation of Arts, New York, 1969, plate 32. American Naïve Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries: 22 Masterpieces from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, exh. cat., Chrysler Museum, Provincetown, Mass., 1970, plate 8. The Gift of American Naïve Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch: 48 Masterpieces, exh. cat., Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Va., 1975, plate 19, cover. "The Gift of American Naïve Paintings from the Collection of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch," Chrysler Museum Bulletin 4 (May 1975): cover. Dennis R. Anderson, Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum, exh. cat., Norfolk, Va., 1975, 33, 46. "Joshua Johnson, Early Black Painter," Colonial Homes 8 (September/October 1982): 129, fig. 8. Carolyn J. Weekley, et al, Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter, exh. cat., Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center and Maryland Historical Society, Williamsburg, Va. and Baltimore, Md., 1987, 142, no. 50. Regional American Painting to 1920, exh. cat., Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, S.C., 1990, not paged. Jefferson C. Harrison, The Chrysler Museum Handbook of the European and American Collections: Selected Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings (Norfolk: The Chrysler Museum, 1991), 87. ISBN: 0940744597, 0940744627 George Tucker, "Picture by Ex-Slave a Chrysler Favorite," Virginian-Pilot and Ledger Star (Norfolk) May 1, 1994, C3.

Martha N. Hagood and Jefferson C. Harrison, American Art at the Chrysler Museum: Selected Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings (Norfolk, Va.: Chrysler Museum of Art, 2005), 30, no. 9. ISBN: 0-940744-71-6
Source/Photographer Chrysler Museum of Art

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