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
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Julian Alden Weir · 1852–1919
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...