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BibliographyRichards, Frederick B., Lord, Clifford L. et al., “The Association: Trustees’ Meeting,” in New York History, vol. 24 no.4 (October, 1943), p. 609.
Everett U. Crosby, Eastman Johnson at Nantucket, His Paintings and Sketches of Nantucket People and Scenes (Nantucket Island, MA: Everett U. Crosby, 1944), pp. 19, 62, no. 56, ill.
Carbone, Teresa A., Hills, Patricia et al., Eastman Johnson Painting America (exh. cat. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1999), p. 78.
Packham, Jim, “The Scissors Grinder,” in The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association, vol. 53 no. 2 (June 2000), cover, p. 61, ill.
Conforti, Michael, Ganz, James A. et al., The Clark Brothers Collect Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings (exh. cat. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 333, fig. 298, no. 223, ill.
Artist
Eastman Johnson
(1824 - 1906)
The Scissors Grinder
Date1870
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsSight: 25 × 21 in. (63.5 × 53.3 cm)
Object numberN0424.1955
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Stephen C. Clark
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextStephen Clark purchased this painting from MacBeth Gallery just months prior to The Farmers’ Museum opening to the public. In its early years, the museum focused on the works of craftsmen and tradespeople who populated the villages and traveled the countryside in 19th-century America. Today, craftspeople still ply trades like weaving at The Farmers’ Museum.
Eastman Johnson is best remembered today for his skill as a genre
painter. Johnson began as a successful portrait painter, capturing
images of Longfellow, Emerson, and Hawthorne, but in 1858 turned to American genre themes such as African Americans, Native Americans, politics, and the frontier. Johnson concentrated on themes that recorded and ennobled rural American life before the Industrial Revolution.BibliographyRichards, Frederick B., Lord, Clifford L. et al., “The Association: Trustees’ Meeting,” in New York History, vol. 24 no.4 (October, 1943), p. 609.
Everett U. Crosby, Eastman Johnson at Nantucket, His Paintings and Sketches of Nantucket People and Scenes (Nantucket Island, MA: Everett U. Crosby, 1944), pp. 19, 62, no. 56, ill.
Carbone, Teresa A., Hills, Patricia et al., Eastman Johnson Painting America (exh. cat. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1999), p. 78.
Packham, Jim, “The Scissors Grinder,” in The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association, vol. 53 no. 2 (June 2000), cover, p. 61, ill.
Conforti, Michael, Ganz, James A. et al., The Clark Brothers Collect Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings (exh. cat. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006), p. 333, fig. 298, no. 223, ill.
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