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Artist Joshua Johnson (American, ca. 1763 - ca. 1824)
Dateabout 1815
DimensionsFrame: 25 3/4 × 21 3/4 × 2 in. (65.4 × 55.2 × 5.1 cm)
Mediumoil on canvas
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LineMr. and Mrs. Robert J. Barber Art Fund
Object number
2023.337
Not on View
Published ReferencesDriskell, David C., Hidden Heritage: Afro-American Art, 1800-1950, San Francisco, 1985, pp. 16, 18, repr. (figs.) 3,4.

Weekley, Carolyn J. and Stiles Tuttle Colwill, Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter, Baltimore, 1987, pp. 129-130, repr. (figs.) 33-34.

Exhibition HistoryThe Bronx, New York, The Bronx Museum; Los Angeles, Afro-American Museum; Hartford, Connecticut, The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hidden Heritage: Afro-American Art, 1800-1950, 14 January - 31 August, 1986.

Baltimore, Maryland, Maryland Historical Society; Williamsburg, Virginia, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Art Center; New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art; Stamford, Connecticut, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Branch; Joshua Johnson: Freeman and Early American Portrait Painter, 26 September 1987 - 9 November 1988.

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