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Patricia Hills, PhD, Founder and Director | Abigael MacGibeny, MA, Project Manager
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The Back Fence, c.1870–80 (Hills no. 16.0.2). Overall
Overall
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The Back Fence, c.1870–80 (Hills no. 16.0.2). Detail
Detail
Photo: Patricia Hills
The Back Fence, c.1870–80 (Hills no. 16.0.2). Detail
Detail
Photo: Patricia Hills
The Back Fence, c.1870–80 (Hills no. 16.0.2). Inscription
Inscription
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[ 16.0 Backyards, 1860s–1870s ]info
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16.0 Backyards, 1860s–1870s

In the 1870s he painted only a few landscapes of the villages of Nantucket that can be attributed to him. More characteristic seems to be the instances where he painted the backyards of neighbors with a focus on the compositions of angles of planks, stairs, and siding. —PH

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Hills no. 16.0.2
The Back Fence
c.1870–80
Locale: Nantucket, Massachusetts
Oil on canvas
15 x 17 in. (38.1 x 43.2 cm)
Initialed lower left: E.J.
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, Gift of Iola Haverstick (2001.147.4)
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Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "The Back Fence, c.1870–80 (Hills no. 16.0.2)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=1125 (accessed on April 26, 2024).