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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Exhibitions
1972 Fogg Art Museum
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, American Art at Harvard, April 19–June 18, 1972, no. 112, as Landscape.
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. 557 (catalogue A, no. 332), as Landscape. (Hale concordance).
Larson, Hoopes, and Peet 1994
Larson, Judy L., Donelson Hoopes and Phyllis Peet. American Paintings at the High Museum of Art. New York: Hudson Hills, 1994, p. 118, as Landscape.
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. 237; vol. 2, p. 750 ill. in b/w (fig. 219), as Landscape.
Commentary

In this painting, Twachtman used a design similar to that in Along the River, Winter (OP.733), but the scene is free of snow and the road narrows more quickly on a more active diagonal, invoking ready movement by contrast with slower travel across a snow-covered expanse. 

The painting was selected for the Fogg Art Museum in 1927 by the museum’s director, Edward W. Forces (1873–1969), from a group of paintings left by the Boston lawyer and Harvard University graduate (class of 1879), William Ingalls Monroe (b. 1854).