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Frederic Remington crafted this scene of bloody confrontation for white audiences east of the Mississippi River, who imagined the West as a place of both danger and opportunity. An unseen Sioux warrior has shot a cavalry scout, who slumps over his horse while the troops behind him flee the ambush. A sculptor and illustrator as well as a painter, Remington was famous for his dynamic compositions of frontier life, which presented mythologized views of encounters between Native and settler-colonial communities in tantalizing color and detail. Although he traveled to western locations to sketch or gather material on assignment, he executed most of his work in his New York studio, including The Advance-Guard<\/em>, which was later reproduced in Harper\u2019s Weekly<\/em> alongside an article by the artist.<\/p>\n","short_description":"Frederic Remington, famous for his dynamic compositions of frontier life, presented mythic, romanticized views of the American West. 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Eastman Johnson painted this composition in 1876, 100 years after the founding of the United States. The centennial fostered a sense of nostalgia among some residents as industrialization and urban growth rapidly transformed the nation. Husking Bee, Island of Nantucket<\/em> depicts a seasonal gathering on the rural Massachusetts island. Community members work together to shuck corn and ready the harvest, a traditional activity that was far removed from daily life for many in the late 19th century. Johnson employed a warm palette and loose brushwork to describe this agrarian subject, presenting an uncomplicated vision of cooperation and closeness to the land.<\/p>\n","short_description":"This painting by Eastman Johnson takes its nostalgic theme from rural Nantucket. A timeless evocation of agrarian peace and cooperation, it includes a woman discovering a red ear of corn, which, according to folk tradition, would allow her to kiss the person of her choice. This use of local subject matter combined with an international style was typical of American art around the time of the centennial.","dimensions":"69.6 \u00d7 138.2 cm (27 3\/8 \u00d7 54 3\/8 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":138,"height":69,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Signed recto, bottom-left, in brown paint: \"E. Johnson \/ 1876\".","credit_line":"Gift of Honor\u00e9 and Potter Palmer","catalogue_display":"

Hills 26.3.3<\/p>","publication_history":"Eugene Benson, \u201cEastman Johnson,\u201d The Galaxy<\/em> VI (1868): 111.\n\nNational Academy of Design, Catalogue of the Fifty-First Annual Exhibition<\/em>, exh. cat. (National Academy of Design, 1876) cat. 285.\n\n\u201cRepresentative Pictures at the Academy,\u201d Appleton\u2019s<\/em> XV, no. 269 (April 15, 1876): 508\u2013510.\n\n\u201cThe National Academy of Design,\u201d The Art Journal<\/em> 2 (1876): 159. \n\nExposition Universelle Internationale, Catalogue Officiel. Tome I: Groupe I, Oeuvres d\u2019Art<\/em>, 3rd ed. (Imprimerie Nationale, 1878), 204, cat. 69, as Epis de bl\u00e9s<\/em>.\n\nS. N. Carter, \u201cPaintings at the Centennial Exhibition,\u201d The Art Journal<\/em> 2 (1876): 284, as Husking Bee<\/em>, https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/20568958<\/a>.\n\nS. N. Carter, \u201cThe Academy Exhibition,\u201d The Art Journal<\/em> 4 (1878): 157\u201359, as Corn Husking<\/em>, https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/20569225<\/a>.\n\nLucy H. Hooper, \u201cThe Pictures at the Paris Exhibition. IV. The American Pictures,\u201d The Art Journal<\/em> 4 (1878): 348\u2013350, as Corn Husking<\/em>, https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/20569288<\/a>.\n\n\u201cAmerican Genre Painters: Eastman Johnson, Winslow Homer and the Rest,\u201d New York Times<\/em> (Aug. 25, 1878): 10, as Corn Husking<\/em>.\n\nS.G.W. Benjamin, \u201cA Representative American,\u201d The Magazine of Art<\/em> 5 (Nov., 1882): 485\u2013490.\n\nIllustrated Catalogue of the Art Hall of the Inter-State Industrial Exposition of Chicago<\/em>, exh. cat. (Rand, McNally, & Co., 1882), 78, cat. 612, as Corn Husking<\/em>\n\nClarence Cook, Art and Artists of Our Time<\/em>, vol. 3 (Selmar Hess, 1888), 263.\n\n\u201cWashington Art Notes,\u201d American Art News<\/em> 4, no. 26 (Apr. 7, 1906): [4], as The Husking Bee<\/em>, https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/25590186<\/a>.\n\n\u201cWeekly Calendar,\u201d The Collector and Art Critic<\/em> 4, no. 6 (Apr., 1906): n.p., as The Husking Bee<\/em>, https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/25435680<\/a>.\n\nSadakichi Hartman, \u201cEastman Johnson: American Genre Painter,\u201d The International Studio<\/em> 34 (Apr., 1908): 111, as Corn Huskers<\/em>.\n\n\u201cThe Loan Exhibitions,\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago<\/em> 4, no. 1 (July, 1910): 6, as Corn Husking<\/em>, https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/4116816<\/a>.\n\nJohn Denison Champlin, Jr. and Charles C. Perkins, Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings<\/em>, vol. 2 (Charles Scribner\u2019s Sons, 1913), 351, as .\n\n\u201cAccessions and Loans,\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago<\/em> 16, no. 3 (May, 1922): 47, as Corn Husking<\/em>, https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/4116423<\/a>.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection<\/em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), 111, 159 (ill.).\n\nFogg Art Museum, Art in New England: New England Genre<\/em>, exh. cat. (Harvard University Press, 1939), cat. 17 (ill.).\n\nJohn I. H. Baur, An American Genre Painter: Eastman Johnson, 1824\u20131906<\/em> exh. cat. (Brooklyn Museum, 1940), 3, 23, 50, 62, cat. 55, pl. 32 (ill.), as Corn Husking Bee<\/em>, https:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/2027\/wu.89050667617<\/a>.\n\nEverett U. 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(Whitney Museum of American Art, 1974), 79, fig. 97 (ill.), as .\n\nPatricia Hills, The Genre Painting of Eastman Johnson: The Sources and Development of His Style and Themes<\/em> (Garland Press, 1977).\n\nRoss E. Taggart, Kaleidoscope of American Painting: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries<\/em>, exh. cat. (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, 1977), cat. 77 (ill.).\n\nSarah Burns, Pastoral Inventions: Rural Life in Nineteenth-Century American Art and Culture<\/em> (Temple University Press, 1989).\n\nMarc Simpson, Sally Mills, and Patricia Hills, Eastman Johnson, The Cranberry Harvest, Island of Nantucket: 25th Anniversary Exhibition<\/em> (Timken Art Gallery, 1990).\n\nSarah Burns, \u201cRevitalizing the \u2018Painted-Out\u2019 North: Winslow Homer, Manly Health, and New England Regionalism in Turn-of-the-Century America,\u201d American Art<\/em> 9, no. 2 (Summer, 1995): 23, https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/3109183<\/a>.\n\nJudith A. 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