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Maple sugar as metaphor.(Current and Coming)
Over the course of several years the American artist Eastman Johnson produced about twenty-five oil sketches that were stepping stones to a masterwork he never completed. The subject was the production of maple sugar in New England, a seasonal event that usually took place at the end of February or shortly after the first thaw. After a period of intense and backbreaking work gathering the sap and producing the sugar, family, friends, and neighbors celebrated that season's yield with great merriment at what was known as a sugaring-off party (held when the sap was transformed into sugar).
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This was a large-scale social event involving music and dancing, flirting and courtship. An exhibition that focuses on this aspect of Johnson's oeuvre through fifteen of his works and supporting materials such as prints and ephemera is on view at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williams-town, Massachusetts, through April 18. Entitled Sugaring Off: The Maple Sugar Paintings of Eastman Johnson, the show then travels to the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, where it may be seen between May 8 and August 1.
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Johnson returned to his native town of Fryeburg, Maine, for the winters of 1861 through 1867 and sketched individuals engaged in one of the many activities associated with making maple sugar: tapping the trees, transporting the barrels of sap to the camp, boiling the sap, and the sugaring-off party. Johnson's output during this time varies from hastily drawn sketches to more finished oils, all of which, in the words of Brian T. Allen, the curator of the exhibition, "celebrate New ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Maple sugar as metaphor.(Current and Coming)