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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The Lighthouse, ca. 1887 (OP.829). Verso: OP.799, The Lighthouse, with label.
Verso: OP.799, The Lighthouse, with label.
Keywords
OP.829
The Lighthouse
ca. 1887
Oil on canvas
12 x 14 in. (30.5 x 35.6 cm)
Signed lower left: J. H. Twachtman
Dallas Museum of Art, Bequest of Joel T. Howard (1951.35)
Provenance
(Macbeth);
Mr. and Mrs. Joel T. Howard;
bequest to present collection, 1951.
Exhibitions
1951 Dallas Museum of Fine Arts
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, The Joel T. and Kathryn Howard Collection of American Painting, 1951, no. 31, as The Lighthouse.
1977 Art Museum of South Texas
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, The Ten, November 11–December 31, 1977, p. 44 ill. in b/w, as The Lighthouse.
1980 Laguna Gloria Art Museum
Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, American Impressionist Painting, April 3–May 22, 1980, as The Lighthouse.
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. 559 (catalogue A, no. 382), as The Lighthouse. (Hale concordance).
Commentary

This painting is likely to depict the lighthouse on Pelee Island, Ontario, in Lake Erie, where Twachtman resided in the spring and summer of 1887. He was sent to the island by his father-in-law, Dr. John Milton Scudder, to tend cattle on the Scudder marsh farm at the north end of the island, where the lighthouse was built in 1833. A keeper's house was built beside in 1855. The lighthouse was restored in 2000.