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 End of the Rain, ca. 1900 (OP.1416). Fig. 1. Booklet advertising The Harbor View Hotel (East Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1904), p. 7, Marjorie Bouve papers, 1892–1972 (bulk 1892–1918) (M89): box 7, Archives and Special Collections, Northeastern University Library, Boston.
Fig. 1. Booklet advertising The Harbor View Hotel (East Gloucester, Massachusetts, 1904), p. 7, Marjorie Bouve papers, 1892–1972 (bulk 1892–1918) (M89): box 7, Archives and Special Collections, Northeastern University Library, Boston.
Keywords
OP.1416
The End of the Rain
ca. 1900
Oil wash on artist's board
11 3/4 x 12 1/2 in. (29.8 x 31.7 cm)
Signed lower left: J. H. Twachtman–
Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Allen Tucker (23.67)
Exhibitions
1901 Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Works of John H. Twachtman, January 8–27, 1901, no. 32, as The End of the Rain.
1901–I Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati Art Museum, Exhibition of Sixty Paintings by Mr. John H. Twachtman, Formerly Resident in Cincinnati, April 12–May 16, 1901, no. 19, as The End of the Rain.
1903–I American Art Galleries
American Art Galleries, New York, Sale of the Work of the Late John H. Twachtman, exhibition and auction, March 19–24, 1903, no. 66, as The End of the Rain.
1920 Dallas Art Association
Dallas Art Association, Adolphus Hotel, Second Annual Exhibition: American and European Art, April 7–21, 1920, no. 273, as The End of the Rain, lent by Mr. Allen Tucker.
1987 Spanierman
Spanierman Gallery, New York, Twachtman in Gloucester: His Last Years, 1900–1902, May 12–June 13, 1987. (Exhibition catalogue: Boyle 1987); (Exhibition catalogue: Gerdts 1987); (Exhibition catalogue: Hale 1987); (Exhibition catalogue: Peters 1987), no. 9, as The End of the Rain.
Literature
Sun 1903–II
"Twachtman Pictures, $16,610." Sun (New York), March 25, 1903, p. 5, as The End of the Rain.
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. 1, pp. 160, 161 ill. in b/w (fig. 12), 162; vol. 2, p. 565 (catalogue A, no. 486b), as The End of the Rain. (Hale concordance).
Brooklyn Museum 1979
Brooklyn Museum. The Brooklyn Museum: American Paintings. New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1979, p. 115 ill. in ill. in b/w, as The End of the Rain.
Peters 1987
Peters, Lisa N. "Catalogue." In Twachtman in Gloucester: His Last Years, 1900–1902, by John Douglass Hale, Richard J. Boyle, and William H. Gerdts. New York: Universe and Ira Spanierman Gallery. Exhibition catalogue (1987 Spanierman), pp. 66–67 ill. in color, as The End of the Rain.
Carbone 2006
Carbone, Teresa. American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: Artists Born by 1876. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 2006, pp. 1026 ill. in b/w, 1027, as The End of the Rain.
Commentary

This painting can be identified as a scene of the Harbor View Hotel (see Harbor View Hotel, OP.1445), depicting the low porch in front of one of the eight buildings belonging to the rambling East Gloucester hotel that was on the waterfront at Wonson's Cove (fig. 1). At the right is the small detached cottage that Twachtman would rent in the summer of 1902. 

The painting was included with its current title in the artist's 1901 exhibitions in Chicago and Cincinnati. It was purchased from his 1903 estate sale by the artist Allen Tucker (1866–1939), who studied with Twachtman and wrote a monograph on him in 1931. The painting was acquired from Tucker by the Brooklyn Museum in 1923.