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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
Markings
Inscribed on verso: Painted by / Eastman Johnson / New York; C [?] Lebi / 230 Wash [?] / Cherry [?] Beach; 60444 Eastman Jo
Provenance
Possibly Frederick Loeser, by 1890
Private collection, Alabama
Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge
James Graham & Sons, New York
[Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, October 31, 1975, Sale 3802, Important 19th and 20th Century American Paintings and Bronzes, From the Collection of the Late Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, lot 43 (as Back from the Orchard)]
Mr. and Mrs. George Arden, c., 1975–1988
Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc., New York, 1992
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1993 (by purchase)
Exhibitions
1890 Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Loan Collection, November 1890–April 1891, no. 22, [possibly, as The Big Bite, owner Frederick Loeser].1891a Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Loan Collection, May–November 1891, no. 39, [possibly, as The Big Bite, owner Frederick Loeser].1907a Century Association
Century Association, New York, Memorial Exhibition of Eastman Johnson, February 9–13, 1907, [possibly, as Back from the Orchard].1993 Berry‑Hill Galleries
Berry‑Hill Galleries, Inc, New York, The Apple in 19th-Century American Art, May 6–June 26, 1993. (Weber 1993), no. 20.1993 Hood Museum
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Israel Sack Gallery, Hanover, New Hampshire, November 16, 1993–June 22, 1997.1999 Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere
Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, America: The New World in 19th Century Painting, March 17, 1999–June 20, 999.1999 Hood Museum
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Israel Sack Gallery, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 16, 1999–November 13, 2005.2006 Cantor Center for Visual Arts
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, 2007.2007 Hood Museum
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).2009 Hood Museum
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Israel Sack Gallery, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 2, 2009–present.References
Sotheby Parke Bernet 1975b
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 1992
Lublin, Mary. American Selections, 1850–1950. New York: Jordan-Volpe Gallery, 1992. Exhibition catalogue, color reproduction.Weber 1993
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.)Upper Valley Magazine 1994
"Preview of the Arts." Upper Valley Magazine (New Hampshire) (September/October 1994), p. 57 illus.Douglass 1999
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 1999
Koja, Stephan, ed. America: The New World in 19th‑Century Painting. Munich: Prestel, 1999, p. 119 (illus. pl. 72).MacAdam 2007a
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 2007b
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.Related work
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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 May 5, 2024).