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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. 20.2.8
Back from the Orchard
Alternate title: Boy Eating Apple
c.1876
Oil on board
21 x 14 in. (53.3 x 35.6 cm)
Initialed lower right: E.J
Labels
Hirschl and Adler Galleries label on verso: Johnson, E./#APG: 716 OD/"Boy Eating Apple"/Oil on academy board/21x14
Provenance
Private collection, until 1977 (by descent in the family of the artist)
[Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1977–1979]
Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation, 1979 (by purchase)
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, Missouri, September 21, 1979 (by gift)
Exhibitions
1978 Hirschl & Adler
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, American Genre Painting in the Victorian Era: Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, and their Contemporaries, April 8–May 6, 1978. (Exhibition catalogue: Hirschl & Adler Galleries 1978), no. 50, p. 46, as Back from the Orchard.References
Hirschl & Adler Galleries 1978
American Genre Painting in the Victorian Era: Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, and their Contemporaries. New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1978. Exhibition catalogue (1978 Hirschl & Adler), p. 46, no. 50 illus., as Back from the Orchard.Hills Examination / Opinion
Examination date(s): 1970s
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Record last updated October 28, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Hills, Patricia, and Abigael MacGibeny. "Back from the Orchard, c.1876 (Hills no. 20.2.8)." Eastman Johnson Catalogue Raisonné. www.eastmanjohnson.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=259 (accessed on May 3, 2024).