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EASTMAN JOHNSON 1824 (599 words) |
 | When Eastman Johnson painted Feather Duster Bay, he was turning to a theme that had considerable appeal to American art patrons in the mid-nineteenth century, that of the young entrepreneur eagerly hawking his wares or his skills. |
| Johnson draws a solid figure with a convincing contrapposto, and he understands the massing of lights and darks. |
| Typical also of Johnsons work are his use of the brown underpainting to represent the middle tones in the composition and his deployment of delicate highlights to animate the surface of the painting, such as the blue lights on the boy's shoes. |
| Eastman Johnson - MalibuMountainWiki (403 words) |
| Eastman Johnson (1824 - 1906) was an American painter. |
| Eastman Johnson was born and raised in southwestern Maine. |
| After 1880 Eastman Johnson painted fewer genre subjects and devoted his energy primarily to formal portrait commmissions, for which he was in great demand. |
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