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"Self-Portrait" by Eastman Johnson
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"By 1890 Eastman Johnson was an emeritus dean of American painting - well liked as a person and respected as an artist who had achieved an original success grounded in his technical prowess. Those critics and writers who remembered American narrative painting before 1850 praised his role in preparing the path for the younger generation of Realists, even if it was recognized that Johnson had stopped short of keeping pace with the new guard. But at the close of Johnson's era, 'devotion to truth,' as one critic put it,' still had value in some circles, and in tributes to the artist at the time of his death, this quality was cited liberally in reference to the man as well as to his art."
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"Woman Reading" by Eastman Johnson
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"Winter, Portrait of a Child" by Eastman Johnson
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"The Girl I Left Behind Me" by Eastman Johnson
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(Excerpts from "Eastman Johnson: Painting America" by Teresa Carbone and Patricia Hills.)
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