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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1927.228
People
John Henry Twachtman, American (Cincinnati, OH 1853 - 1902 Gloucester, MA)
Title
Landscape
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1887-1888
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231157

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on mahogany panel
Dimensions
33 x 39.4 cm (13 x 15 1/2 in.)
framed: 48.3 x 55.3 x 4.5 cm (19 x 21 3/4 x 1 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
William I. Monroe; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1927.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of William I. Monroe, Class of 1879
Accession Year
1927
Object Number
1927.228
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • John Douglass Hale, "The Life and Creative Development of John H. Twachtman" (PhD. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1957), Unpublished, vol. 2, p. 557 (catalogue A, no. 332), repr.
  • Kenyon Castle Bolton, III, Peter G. Huenink, Earl A. Powell III, Harry Z. Rand, and Nanette C. Sexton, American Art at Harvard, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1972), cat. 112, ill.
  • Eric M. Rosenberg and Miriam Stewart, The Harvest of 1830: The Barbizon Legacy, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 24
  • Judy Larson, Donelson F. Hoopes, and Phyllis Peet, American Paintings at the High Museum of Art, High Museum of Art (New York, 1994), p. 118
  • Lisa Peters, "John Twachtman (1853-1902) and the American Scene in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Frontier within the Terrain of the Familiar" (PhD dissertation, City University of New York, 1996), Unpublished, vol. 1, p. 237; vol. 2, fig. 219
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 369, cat. 401, ill.
  • John Henry Twachtman Catalogue Raisonné, website, Greenwich Historical Society, 2021, no. OP.734; https://www.jhtwachtman.org/catalogue/entry.php?id=206 [accessed 7-26-21]

Exhibition History

  • American Art at Harvard, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/19/1972 - 06/18/1972
  • The Harvest of 1830: the Barbizon Legacy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/25/1990 - 10/21/1990
  • Re-View: S426A (Large Niche) #1: CB30 Photography and Society & HAA172w American Art and Modernity, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/04/2009 - 10/04/2009

Verification Level

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