My Back Yard
Medium
Etching on paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 19.8 × 15.3 cm (7 13/16 × 6 1/16 in.); Sheet: 32.2 × 19.2 cm (12 11/16 × 7 9/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
154197
About the Artist
Julian Alden Weir
Julian Alden Weir (1852–1919) was one of the central figures of American Impressionism, a painter whose luminous canvases helped transform the reception of modern French art in the United States and whose personal influence shaped a generation of American artists. Born in West Point, New York, into a family steeped in art — his father Robert Weir was a drawing instructor at West Point — he receive...