Sunday, April 5, 2009

Eastman Johnson


[The Hatch Family] 1871
oil on canvas
I don't often feature American painters but this is so good, featuring three generations of a middle class Victorian family with the newest grand-child being admired. It shows eleven children, a not abnormal family at this time. Not a typical painting for Johnson who is best known for his superb scenes of frontier life.

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