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Corn-Shelling

Artist Eastman Johnson (American, 1824-1906)

Date1864

Dimensions15 3/8 x 12 1/2 in. (39.1 x 31.7 cm)

Mediumoil on academy board

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LineGift of Florence Scott Libbey

Object number

1924.35

Not on View

Published ReferencesRichardson, E., American Romantic Painting, New York, 1944, pl. 175.

Adams, James Truslow, and R.V. Coleman, Album of American History, Scribners, New York, 1944, repr.

Wilder, Ludlum, and Brown, Elementary American History, This is America's Story, Houghton, Mifflin Company, Boston, 1948, repr.

Richardson, E., Painting in America, The Story of 450 Years, New York, 1956, p. 232.

Washington, Selden, "Art and American Life," Toledo Museum of Art Museum News, new series, vol. 7, no. 3, Autumn 1964, pp. 51-54, repr. p. 53.

Young, Mahonri Sharp, "From Howling Wilderness to Queensborough Bridge," Apollo, vol. 86, no. 70, Dec. 1967, p. 503.

Peterson, Harold L., Americans at Home, New York, 1971, pl. 114, repr.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, American Paintings, Toledo, 1979, pp. 66-7, pl. 40.

Kaster, Joseph, "The Conundrum of Corn: The Artist's Vision," American Heritage. vol. 31. no. 5. August/September 1980, p. 24, repr. p. 25.

Carbone, Teresa, Eastman Johnson: Painting America, New York, 1999, p. 62, fig. 37.

Verlag, Michael Imhof, Die Dusseldorfer Malerschule und ihre internationale Ausstrahlung 1819-1918, Band 2-Katalog, Museum Kunstpalast, 2011. p. 400 (repr) fig. 339.

Exhibition HistoryChicago, Art Institute of Chicago, First Annual Exhibition of American Paintings, 1888, no. 101.

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Art Collections Loaned by James W. Ellsworth, 1890, no. 50.

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, Half a Century of American Art, 1939, no. 85, pl. II.

Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, An American Genre Painter, Eastman Johnson, 1940, no. 90-A (cat. by J.I.H. Baur).

Greenwich, Greenwich Public Library, Sept. 1945.

New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art, American Paintings from the Toledo Museum of Art, 1986.

Columbus (OH), Columbus Museum of Art; Tokyo, The Isetan Museum; Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art; Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, et. al., A Nation's Legacy: 150 Years of American Art from Ohio Collections, 1992, no. 14, p. 24, repr. p. 39 (col.) 180.

Düsseldorf, Germany, Museum Kunst Palast, The Düsseldorf School of Painting – Crossing Bridges Between Cultures, September 23, 2011 – January 22, 2012, cat. no. 339, pp. 400, 402, repr. (col.) p. 400. Waterville, ME, Colby College Museum of Art, Eastman Johnson in Maine, Jun. 6 - Dec. 8, 2024.