id: 173167 accession number: 1915.682 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1915.682 updated: 2022-09-22 11:06:06.627000 Winding Yarn (Interior of a Nantucket Kitchen), 1872. Eastman Johnson (American, 1824–1906). Oil on board; framed: 70.2 x 85.4 x 10.2 cm (27 5/8 x 33 5/8 x 4 in.); unframed: 37.5 x 54.6 cm (14 3/4 x 21 1/2 in.); former: 52.7 x 69.9 x 5.1 cm (20 3/4 x 27 1/2 x 2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection 1915.682 title: Winding Yarn (Interior of a Nantucket Kitchen) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1872 creation date earliest: 1872 creation date latest: 1872 current location: creditline: Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection copyright: --- culture: America, 19th century technique: oil on board department: American Painting and Sculpture collection: American - Painting type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Eastman Johnson (American, 1824–1906) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 70.2 x 85.4 x 10.2 cm (27 5/8 x 33 5/8 x 4 in.); Unframed: 37.5 x 54.6 cm (14 3/4 x 21 1/2 in.); Former: 52.7 x 69.9 x 5.1 cm (20 3/4 x 27 1/2 x 2 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed lower right: E. Johnson 1872 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Inaugural Exhibition opening date: 1916-06-06T05:00:00 Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * New York, American Art Association, Catalogue of Finished Pictures, Studies, and Drawings by the late Eastman Johnson, N.A. (26-27 February 1907).
Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Inaugural Exhibition of The Cleveland Museum of Art (6 June-20 September 1916), listed p. 128, no. 28.
Santa Barbara, Painting Today and Yesterday in the United States (5 June-1 September 1941), cat. no. 65.
Nantucket, MA, Kenneth Taylor Gallery, Eastman Johnson at Nantucket (July, 1945).
Oxford, Ohio, Miami University, Sesquicentennial Celebration (15 May-15 June 1959).
Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum (6 June-8 September 1991). --- PROVENANCE H. B. Hurlbut, Cleveland (1878). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Several of Johnson’s most acclaimed works were inspired by Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, where he summered after acquiring property in the early 1870s. Set in a rustic kitchen interior, this painting depicts a woman who winds a ball of yarn from a coil looped in the hands of a man sitting across from her at a respectable distance. At the time, winding yarn was a common symbol of courtship that carried humorous overtones of a woman ensnaring her suitor. The second woman in the composition is likely a chaperone. The suitor’s unrefined, open-legged pose, coupled with his uncouth action of placing his hat on the floor, adds further comic elements that audiences at the time would have appreciated. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Strahan, Edward, ed. The Art Treasures of America: Being the Choicest Works of Art in the Public and Private Collections of North America. vol. 8. Philadelphia: Gebbie & Barrie, 1879. page number: Mentioned: p. 74 url: Crosby, Everett Uberto. Eastman Johnson at Nantucket: His Paintings and Sketches of Nantucket People and Scenes. Nantucket, MA: 1944. page number: Mentioned: p. 19, fig. C.51; Reproduced: p. 58, fig. C.51 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. "A Check List: American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in The Cleveland Museum of Art." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 60:1 (January, 1973). page number: Mentioned: p. 30, cat. 116 url: Turner, Evan H. Prologue in Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Mentioned: p. 14-15; Reproduced: p. 15 url: Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. page number: Reproduced: p. 117 url: National Museum of American History. Smithsonian's America: An Interactive Exhibition of American History and Culture. 1994; Salinas, CA: Creative Multimedia, 1994. Multimedia CD-ROM. page number: url: Carbone, Teresa A., and Patricia Hills. Eastman Johnson: Painting America. New York: Brooklyn Museum of Art, in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. page number: Reproduced: p. 79, fig. 43; Mentioned: p. 79 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 535 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n99 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.682/1915.682_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.682/1915.682_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1915.682/1915.682_full.tif