Portrait of a Young Woman

Artists

Description

Joshua Johnson is documented as the earliest artist of African descent to make a living from painting in the United States. He was a professional portrait painter who lived in and around Baltimore, Maryland. His birth and death dates, as well as place of birth and death, are unknown.

Dimensions

61 × 50.1 cm (24 × 19 3/4 in.) framed: 73 × 62.2 × 3.8 cm (28 3/4 × 24 1/2 × 1 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Bertha Slattery Lieberman, Baltimore, MD; to her son William S. Lieberman, New York, NY; to Washburn Gallery, New York, NY, 1987-2005; Estate of William S. Lieberman, 2005-2007; his bequest to the Fogg Museum, 2007.