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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OP.530
The Valley
ca. 1882
Oil on canvas
12 x 18 in. (30.5 x 45.7 cm)
Signed lower right: J. H. Twachtman
Location unknown
Literature
American Art Association 1925
English, French, Dutch, and American Paintings by Old and Modern Masters. Auction catalogue, March 31–April 1, 1925. New York: American Art Association, 1925, lot 39, as The Valley.
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. 500–501 (catalogue G, no. 638), as The Valley. (Hale concordance).
Commentary

This unlocated painting is related to, and possibly a study for, Spring Freshet (OP.531). The site is probably Cincinnati's Mill Creek, depicted as well in the etching, Mill Creek, Cincinnati (E.503).

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From American Art Association 1925

A runnel of water, winding through the centre of the landscape, is encompassed at left and right by the pale green mounds of its banks; in the middle distance, along its course a group of four stripped trees. Across the background, in the pallid winter light, stretches a fantastically shaped gray curtain of woodland.