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
OP.841
Seascape
Alternate title: Marine
1880s
Oil on canvas
19 3/4 x 23 5/8 in. (50.2 x 59.9 cm)
Signed lower right: J. H. Twachtman–
Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio, Gift of Homer H. Johnson, New London, Ohio (1916.2)
Exhibitions
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. 32, as Marine, lent by the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio.
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. 560 (catalogue A, no. 396), as Seascape. (Hale concordance).
Allen Memorial Art Museum 1967
Allen Memorial Art Museum. Catalogue of European and American Paintings and Sculpture in the Allen Memorial Art Museum. Oberlin, Ohio: Oberlin College, 1967, pp. 152–53, p. 320 ill. in b/w, as Seascape.
Commentary

Possibly rendered in Newport, Rhode Island, in the summer of 1889, due to its reductive design and palette of tinted blues and greens, this painting was a gift in 1916 to the Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College, by the Cleveland lawyer Homer H. Johnson (1862–1960, Oberlin, class of 1885).