Lincoln Assassination Paintings/Depictions

[Eva Elisabeth]

(01-13-2015 03:40 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(01-13-2015 02:32 PM)BettyO Wrote:  It certainly appears to be a modern painting to me - perhaps it's the bright colors - it doesn't appear faded as most old paintings do....

Laurie and Betty, I was curious about the attribution also. I wonder if a mistake was made. Here is a definite work by Eastman Johnson.

And here's one by Eastman Johnson painted in similarly bright colors:
http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=13275
Eastman Johnson was the co-founder of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC.