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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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P.931
Trees in a Nursery
ca. 1888–95
Pastel on brown paper
18 x 22 in. (45.7 x 55.9 cm)
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, Gift of Raymond J. and Margaret Horowitz (2007.026)
Provenance
Martha Twachtman, the artist's wife, Greenwich, Connecticut;
to her son, Godfrey Twachtman;
(Milch, 1967);
to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz, 1967;
gift to present collection, 2007.
Exhibitions
1968 Spanierman
Ira Spanierman, New York, John Henry Twachtman, 1853–1902: An Exhibition of Paintings and Pastels, February 3–24, 1968, no. 33, ill., as Trees in a Nursery, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Horowitz.
1973 Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, American Impressionist and Realist Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz, April 19–June 3, 1973, no. 19, pp. 66–67 ill. in b/w, as Trees in a Nursery.
1987 Hirschl & Adler Galleries
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, Painters in Pastel: A Survey of American Works, April 25–June 5, 1987, no. 25, p. 34 ill. in color, as Trees in a Nursery.
1989 Spanierman
Spanierman Gallery, New York, In the Sunlight: The Floral and Figurative Art of J. H. Twachtman, May 10–June 10, 1989. (Exhibition catalogue: Boyle 1989); (Exhibition catalogue: Gerdts 1989); (Exhibition catalogue: Spanierman 1989); (Exhibition catalogue: Peters 1989–II); (Exhibition catalogue: Peters 1989–III), no. 18, pp. 23 ill. in color, 90-91 ill. in color, as Trees in a Nursery.
1999 National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., American Impressionism and Realism: The Margaret and Raymond Horowitz Collection, January 24–May 9, 1999. (Cikovsky 1999), no. 44, pp. 138 ill. in color, 139, 191, as Trees in a Nursery.
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. 592 (catalogue A, no. 1031), as Trees in a Nursery. (Hale concordance).
Stebbins 1976
Stebbins, Theodore E. Jr. American Master Drawings and Watercolors. New York: Harper and Row, 1976, p. 227, as Trees in a Nursery.
Pilgrim 1978
Pilgrim, Dianne H. "The Revival of Pastels in Nineteenth Century America: The Society of Painters in Pastel." American Art Journal 10 (November 1978), p. 59, ill. in b/w, as Trees in a Nursery.
Burke 1983
Burke, Doreen Bolger. J. Alden Weir: An American Impressionist. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1983, pp. 168-71 ill. in b/w.
Gerdts 1989
Gerdts, William H. "'Like Dreams of Flowers.'" In In the Sunlight: The Floral and Figurative Art of J. H. Twachtman, by Lisa N. Peters et al. New York: Spanierman Gallery, 1989. Exhibition catalogue (1989 Spanierman), p. 33, as Trees in a Nursery.
Cikovsky 1999
Cikovsky, Nicolai. American Impressionism and Realism: The Margaret and Raymond Horowitz Collection. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1999 (1999 National Gallery of Art), pp. 138 ill. in color, 139, 191, as Trees in a Nursery.
Commentary

This is possibly the pastel included as Harvesting in Twachtman’s 1891 exhibition at Wunderlich Gallery.  A reviewer for the Brooklyn Eagle commented: “‘Harvesting,’” a pastel, is a little thing of good sentiment and worth, agreeable in lines—that is, in composition—and grateful in subject.”[1]  A writer for the New York Evening Post referred to Harvesting as among the works in the show in which there is “much good in such clever little drawings.”[2]

[1] Brooklyn Eagle 1891.

[2] New York Evening Post 1891.