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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

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Keywords
P.822
Oat Field
ca. 1888–95
Pastel on paper
11 3/8 x 19 in. (28.8 x 48.3 cm)
Signed lower right: J. H. Twachtman–
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York, Gift of George F. Goodyear (1958:1.2)
Provenance
Martha Twachtman, the artist's wife, Greenwich, Connecticut;
to A. Conger Goodyear;
to his son, George Forman Goodyear;
gift to present collection, 1958.
Exhibitions
1913 New York School of Applied Design for Women
New York School of Applied Design for Women, Fifty Paintings by the Late John H. Twachtman, January 15–February 15, 1913, no. 49, as Oat Field, lent by Mrs. J. H. Twachtman.
1913–I Albright Art Gallery
Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, Paintings and Pastels by the Late John H. Twachtman, March 11–April 2, 1913, no. 38, as Oat Field, lent by Mrs. J. H. Twachtman.
1966 Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati Art Museum, John Henry Twachtman: A Retrospective Exhibition, October 7–November 20, 1966. (Exhibition catalogue: Baskett 1966); (Exhibition catalogue: Boyle 1966–I), no. 99, as Oat Field, lent by the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo.
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. 526 (catalogue G, no. 938), as Oat Field. (Hale concordance).
Commentary

Featuring a high, open meadow of soft grass, presumably in Branchville, Oat Field was lent by Martha Twachtman to the two solo exhibitions of the artist’s work held in 1913. The work sold from the Buffalo exhibition to the Buffalo businessman, philanthropist, and a founder of the Museum of Modern Art, Anson Conger Goodyear (1877–1964). It was inherited by his son George Forman Goodyear, who gave it to its present collection in 1958.