In the Land of Nod

Inscriptions

Signed and dated, lower left: E. Johnson / 1879

Exhibition History

Detroit Art Loan Exhibition, Detroit Art Loan Building, Detroit, MI, 1883, no. 380 (possibly, as The Sleeping Child)

From Titian to Sargent: Dartmouth Alumni and Friends Collect, Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH, September 12-November 1, 1987.

Publication History

Catalogue of Art Works Exhibited. Detroit, MI:Detroit Art Loan, 1883, p. 39, no. 380 [possibly, as The Sleeping Child].

Catalogue of Finished Pictures, Studies, and Drawings by the Late Eastman Johnson, N.A. New York: American Art Association,February 1907, no. 59, as In the Land of Nod.

Barbara J. MacAdam, From Titian to Sargent: Dartmouth Alumni and Friends Collect. Hanover, NH: Hood Museum of Art, 1987, no. 109 illus., as Sleeping Child.

Patricia Hills and Abigael MacGibeny. "In the Land of Nod, 1879 (Hills no. 21.1.29)." In Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonne.　www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=286 (accessed on May 9, 2025).

Provenance

The artist until his death, 1906; the artist’s estate sale, American Art Association, February 1907, no. 59 (as In the Land of Nod); sold to private collection; Sotheby’s, New York, 22 October 1982, lot. 58 (as Sleeping Girl); purchased at the previous by Dr. Roger A. Hurwitz, MD, Class of 1956, Indianapolis; by descent to Andrew Hurwitz and Valerie Hurwitz Goldblatt, 2025; given to the present collection, 2025.

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