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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. 20.2.6
Boy Eating Apples
Alternate titles: possibly The Big Bite; Boy Eating Apple
c.1876
Oil on board
10 5/8 x 6 1/2 in. (27 x 16.5 cm)
No inscriptions noted
Provenance
Possibly Frederick Loeser, by 1890
Mrs. Thomas Childs Wurts, until 1958
Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1958 (Gift of Mrs. Thomas Childs Wurts, accession no. 58.57.2/X); reported missing and deaccessioned (by the renamed Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute), 1972
Present whereabouts unknown
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].References
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].Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 1971-06 [? partly crossed off on Hills card]
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Record last updated October 21, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Boy Eating Apples, c.1876 (Hills no. 20.2.6)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=257 (accessed on May 3, 2024).