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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Keywords
OP.1440
Fish Sheds and Schooner, Gloucester
1901–2
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 in. (63.5 x 76.2 cm)
Curtis Galleries, Minneapolis, Myron Kunin Collection of American Art
Image: Minneapolis Institute of Art
Exhibitions
1977 Art Museum of South Texas
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, The Ten, November 11–December 31, 1977, p. 42 ill. in b/w, as Fish Sheds and Schooner, Gloucester, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. L.C. Krueger, Hinsdale, Ill.
1987 Spanierman
Spanierman Gallery, New York, Twachtman in Gloucester: His Last Years, 1900–1902, May 12–June 13, 1987. (Exhibition catalogue: Boyle 1987); (Exhibition catalogue: Gerdts 1987); (Exhibition catalogue: Hale 1987); (Exhibition catalogue: Peters 1987), no. 13, as Fish Sheds and Schooner, Gloucester.
1999 High Museum of Art
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, John Henry Twachtman: An American Impressionist, February 26–May 21, 2000. (Peters 1999–I), no. 57, as Fish Sheds and Schooner, Gloucester. Traveled to: Cincinnati Art Museum, June 6–September 5, 1999; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, October 16, 1999–January 2, 2000.
Literature
Art in America 1974
Art in America 62 (September 1974), p. 13 ill. in color (illustration flipped), as Fish Sheds and Schooner, Gloucester.
Boyle 1987
Boyle, Richard J. "John Twachtman's Gloucester Years." In Twachtman in Gloucester: His Last Years, 1900–1902, by John Douglass Hale, Richard J. Boyle, and William H. Gerdts. New York: Universe and Ira Spanierman Gallery, 1987. Exhibition catalogue (1987 Spanierman), p. 23, as Fish Sheds and Schooner, Gloucester.
Peters 1987
Peters, Lisa N. "Catalogue." In Twachtman in Gloucester: His Last Years, 1900–1902, by John Douglass Hale, Richard J. Boyle, and William H. Gerdts. New York: Universe and Ira Spanierman Gallery. Exhibition catalogue (1987 Spanierman), pp. 74–75 ill. in color, as Fish Sheds and Schooner, Gloucester.
Sotheby's New York 1996–II
American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture. Auction catalogue, December 5, 1996. New York: Sotheby's, lot 16 ill. in color, as Fish Sheds and Schooner, Gloucester.
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. 158, 160 ill. in color, as Fish Sheds and Schooner, Gloucester.
Commentary

A favorite Gloucester perspective for Twachtman was the view from Banner Hill in East Gloucester looking downward toward Smith's Cove or across Inner Harbor. Here he took the opposite vantage point, depicting a view from a pier in Rocky Neck looking toward Banner Hill. In the scene, the white buildings on the hillcrest are similar to those in Gloucester (OP.1408) and structures in the hills themselves are suggestive of those in Gloucester Harbor (OP.1403). Twachtman consolidated the scene's depth by depicting a broadside view of the dark hull of a schooner at the work's center, its horizontality repeated in the buildings and hills. The painting belongs to many in Twachtman's oeuvre in which he chose to look self-reflectively at sites from reverse perspectives, as if to consider himself in relation to his work. 

The early history of this painting is unknown. It is likely to have been rendered in the summer of 1901 or the summer of 1902 because it is not featured among the twenty-four charcoal sketches Twachtman sent to his son, after images of Gloucester that he painted in the summer of 1900.