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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

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Keywords
WC.800
Footbridge at Bridgeport
Alternate title: Bridgeport
ca. 1888
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower left: J. H. Twachtman–
Location unknown
Provenance
Private collection;
by descent in the family to the present.
Exhibitions
1899 American Water Color Society probably
National Academy of Design, New York, Thirty-Second Annual Exhibition of the American Water Color Society, February 13–March 11, 1899, no. 114, as Bridgeport.
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. 517 (catalogue G, no. 801), as Bridgeport. (Hale concordance).
Peters 1995
Peters, Lisa N. "John Twachtman (1853–1902) and the American Scene in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Frontier within the Terrain of the Familiar." 2 vols. Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, 1995. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1996, vol. 1, p. 249; vol. 2, p. 780 ill. in b/w (fig. 253), as Footbridge at Bridgeport.
Commentary

See the pastel, Footbridge at Bridgeport (P.802), for information on this site. Here Twachtman simplified the scene, using calligraphic brushwork over loose washes of bluish-lavender, while the distance across the river seems greater than in the pastel, as the lamppost is directly in front of the building on the opposite shore whereas in the pastel, it is to its left.

This work was included, as Bridgeport, in the American Water Color Society’s annual in 1899.