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The Conch Shell (What the Shell Says)

1875

Eastman Johnson

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Artist: Eastman Johnson (1824-1906)
Title: The Conch Shell (What the Shell Says)
Date: 1875
Object Type: Painting
Medium: Oil on paperboard
Dimensions: Overall: 21 7/8 x 16 7/8 in. (55.563 x 42.863 cm) Framed: 28 1/8 x 23 1/8 in. (71.438 x 58.738 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd
Accession Number: 1979.7.64

New York, Century Association, December 1875, exh. no. 15 (asThe Conch Shell)New York, Kurtz Gallery, Artists Fund Society, Sixteenth Annual Exhibition, 1876Philadelphia, United States Centennial Commission, Art Gallery, International Exhibition, 1876, exh. no. 72 (as What the Sea Says)Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1878, exh. no. 70 (as Ce que disent les coquillages)New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Loan Collection of Paintings and Sculpture in the West Galleries and the Grand Hall, 1881, exh. no. 41 (as What the Shell is Saying)FAMSF, Eastman Johnson: Seven Paintings by the Highly Regarded NineteenthCentury American Artist, 1979, no publ.

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