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.824
Pastures, Greenwich, Connecticut
ca. 1888–95
Pastel on composition board
14 15/16 x 18 in. (37.9 x 45.7 cm)
Signed lower left: J. H. Twachtman– Inscribed along right edge in graphite: 25 17 1/2 x 14
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of E. R. Brumley (1946.72)
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. 96, as Pastures, Greenwich, Connecticut, lent by the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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. 591 (catalogue A, no. 1010), as Pastures, Greenwich, Connecticut. (Hale concordance).
Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 1973
"A Check List: American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in the Cleveland Museum of Art." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (January 1973), p. 34, as Pastures, Greenwich, Connecticut.
Commentary

Although Greenwich is in the title of this pastel, this is again an image of the Branchville hills, perhaps depicting the same locale as in Connecticut Landscape (P.821). However, here Twachtman tilted his picture plane forward, setting his horizon line higher in the composition. The result is that the distant hills are no longer visible and the sky seems behind the hills rather than directly overhead.