<|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|><|begin_of_text|>In her new book 'Nature Framed: At Home in the Landscape,' Eva Hagberg examines 2 dozen contemporary residences with very special connections to the great outdoors. Here's a look at one of them.
May 19, 201<wm>1| By: [Unknown], The New York Times
A photograph by Simon Marmot
At first, the artist is not a surprise. Like many contemporary architects, her inspiration is not a famous place, a natural wonder or historical site, a national monument or landmark. Instead, it's her backyard. Because the artist is a professor of architecture at Yale University, it's possible that she would, in some small way, have been exposed to various versions of the subject before. Yet the</wm> simple fact that she has painted it at least twice before gives the picture a peculiar, almost familial quality