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John Henry Twachtman Catalogue Raisonné
An online catalogue by Lisa N. Peters, Ph.D., in collaboration with the Greenwich Historical Society

Catalogue Entry

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Keywords
OP.1117
Hemlock Pool
Alternate title: Below the Hemlock Pool
Late 1890s
Oil on panel (cradled)
18 x 22 in. (45.7 x 55.9 cm)
Signed lower right: J. H. Twachtman–
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi, Museum Purchase (26.52)
Provenance
(Macbeth, 1919);
(Vose, 1919);
to present collection, 1926.
Exhibitions
1919 Macbeth
Macbeth Gallery, New York, Paintings by John H. Twachtman, January 1919, no. 2, as Below the Hemlock Pool.
1919–II Vose
R. C. & N. M. Vose, Boston, Exhibition of Paintings by J. H. Twachtman, November 10–22, 1919, no. 4, as Below the Hemlock Pool.
1980 Dixon Gallery and Gardens
Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee, Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Lauren Rogers Library and Museum of Art: A Loan Exhibition, January 20–March 16, 1980, no. 22, as Below the Hemlock Pool.
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, pp. 456 (catalogue G, no. 259), 552 (catalogue A, no. 254), as Below the Hemlock Pool. (Hale concordance).
Lauren Rogers Museum 1989
The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1989, p. 45 ill. in color, as Below the Hemlock Pool.
Commentary

This painting belonged to the artist's estate when it was exhibited in 1919 at the Macbeth Gallery in New York. Thus, its title in the catalogue, Below the Hemlock Pool, probably accurately describes the site of this sketchy impressionist interpretation of the scene. 

In 1926 the painting entered its present collection, the Lauren Rogers Museum in Laurel, Mississippi. The museum was created as a memorial to the only son and grandson of one of the town’s founding families who died at twenty-one from complications of appendicitis. While most of the works in the collection were donated by Rogers’s parents and grandparents, this painting appears to have been purchased directly from Vose Galleries, Boston.