Artist: Jonathan Eastman Johnson
Style: Realism
Topic: Children
Date: 1871
Size: 92 x 153 cm
Museum: Layton Art Collection (United States)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
Images of innocent and carefree children offered promise for a new beginning to a generation troubled by industrialization and decaying urban conditions. The traditional New England character of Nantucket attracted Johnson to spend his summers there. This energetic and convincingly spontaneous scene of children playing on the wreck of a stagecoach was actually staged in Nantucket on a platform, which the artist altered in the studio to conform to an abandoned coach he had drawn in the Catskills. Despite its contrived origins, the painting is a joyful celebration of the hope of a nation as embodied in the laughter of its youth.
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