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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
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
Provenance
(American Art Association, New York, March 31–April 1, 1925, lot 139);
to (Metropolitan Gallery);
(Vose, by 1919);
(Newhouse Gallery, New York).
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).
Selected Literature
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.