John Henry Twachtman Catalogue Raisonné
An online catalogue by Lisa N. Peters, Ph.D., in collaboration with the Greenwich Historical Society
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P.808
Gloucester Harbor
ca. 1889
Pastel on gray paper
8 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. (21.6 x 23.5 cm)
Signed lower right: J. H. Twachtman–
Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of E. R. Brumley (50.7)
Provenance
(Macbeth);
E. R. Brumley;
to present collection, 1950.
Exhibitions
1966 Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati Art Museum, John Henry Twachtman: A Retrospective Exhibition, October 7–November 20, 1966. (Exhibition catalogue: Baskett 1966); (Exhibition catalogue: Boyle 1966–I), no. 109, as Gloucester Harbor, lent by the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Literature
Hale 1957
Hale, John Douglass. "Life and Creative Development of John H. Twachtman." 2 vols. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1957. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms, 1958, vol. 2, p. 587 (catalogue A, no. 952), as Gloucester Harbor. (Hale concordance).
Peters 1995
Peters, Lisa N. "John Twachtman (1853–1902) and the American Scene in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Frontier within the Terrain of the Familiar." 2 vols. Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, 1995. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1996, vol. 1, p. 273; vol. 2, p. 826 ill. in b/w (fig. 302), as Gloucester Harbor.
Peters 1999–I
Peters, Lisa N. John Henry Twachtman: An American Impressionist. Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1999. Exhibition catalogue (1999 High Museum of Art), pp. 90–91 ill. in b/w, as Gloucester Harbor.
Commentary

Although catalogued as Gloucester, this pastel is a Newport view, created by Twachtman in the summer of 1889. The scene is the same as that depicted in his oil painting, Harbor View (OP.836). Here he selected a vantage point at a greater distance and at a lower angle from the pier at the left, revealing the presence of two boats at anchor, whereas in Harbor View he featured only the one he could see from his closer angle. Here, the tower in the middle distance belongs to the Colony House, built 1736–39, as a meeting house for the colonial legislature of the town (see OP.836, fig. 1).