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20.2 Boys Outdoors
Young boys have been a traditional staples of genre painting. To patrons of art during the mid-nineteenth century these youths recalled memories of their own growing years in which innocence was becoming more and more modified by mischievous cunning. —PH
Hills no. 20.2.3
Back from the Orchard
Alternate titles: possibly The Big Bite; Boy Eating Apple
1876
Oil on board
19 7/8 x 11 7/8 in. (50.5 x 30.2 cm)
Signed and dated lower right: E. Johnson 1876
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Markings
Inscribed on verso: Painted by / Eastman Johnson / New York; C [?] Lebi / 230 Wash [?] / Cherry [?] Beach; 60444 Eastman Jo
Provenance
Private collection, Alabama
Exhibitions
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Loan Collection, November 1890–April 1891, no. 22, [possibly, as The Big Bite, owner Frederick Loeser].
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Loan Collection, May–November 1891, no. 39, [possibly, as The Big Bite, owner Frederick Loeser].
Century Association, New York, Memorial Exhibition of Eastman Johnson, February 9–13, 1907, [possibly, as Back from the Orchard].
Berry‑Hill Galleries, Inc, New York, The Apple in 19th-Century American Art, May 6–June 26, 1993. (Weber 1993), no. 20.
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Israel Sack Gallery, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 16, 1993–June 22, 1997.
Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, America: The New World in 19th Century Painting, March 17, 1999–June 20, 999.
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Israel Sack Gallery, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 16, 1999–November 13, 2005.
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, American ABC: Childhood in 19th Century America, February 1–May 7, 2006. (Exhibition catalogue: Perry 2006). Traveled to: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., July 4–September 17, 2006; Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, November 1, 2006–January 7, 2007.
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, William B. Jaffe and Evelyn A. Jaffe Hall Galleries, Hanover, New Hampshire, Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, June 9–December 9, 2007. (MacAdam 2007a).
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Israel Sack Gallery, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 2, 2009–present.
References
Sale Number 3802, Important 19th and 20th Century American Paintings and Bronzes, from the Collection of the Late Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge. Sotheby Parke Bernet, October 31, 1975, lot 43, as Back from the Orchard.
Lublin, Mary. American Selections, 1850–1950. New York: Jordan-Volpe Gallery, 1992. Exhibition catalogue, color reproduction.
Weber, Bruce. The Apple of America: The Apple in 19th Century American Art. New York: Berry‑Hill Galleries, Inc., 1993. Exhibition catalogue (1993 Berry‑Hill Galleries), p. 28, no. 20 (color illus.)
"Preview of the Arts." Upper Valley Magazine (New Hampshire) (September/October 1994), p. 57 illus.
Douglass, Julie M. "Lifetime Exhibition History." In Eastman Johnson: Painting America, by Teresa A. Carbone and Patricia Hills. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Museum of Art, in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1999. Exhibition catalogue, p. 264 [possibly, as The Big Bite].
Koja, Stephan, ed. America: The New World in 19th‑Century Painting. Munich: Prestel, 1999, p. 119 (illus. pl. 72).
MacAdam, Barbara J. American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood
Museum of Art. Hanover, NH: Hood Museum of Art, 2007. Exhibition catalogue (2007 Hood Museum), p. 59, no. 38.
MacAdam, Barbara J. "Building on Dartmouth's Historic American Collections: Hood Museum of Art Acquisitions since 1985." The Magazine Antiques (November 2007), p. 143 illus.
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Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Back from the Orchard, 1876 (Hills no. 20.2.3)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=256 (accessed on April 25, 2024).