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
P.834
House and Tree
Alternate titles: Landscape; Landscape with Barn
ca. 1888–95
Pastel on paper
10 x 10 in. (25.4 x 25.4 cm)
Signed lower right: J. H. Twachtman–
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Bequest of Harriet P. Winslow
Image: Edward Owen
Exhibitions
1953 Phillips Gallery
Phillips Gallery, Washington, D.C., Paintings by Twachtman, Weir, and Lawson, Summer 1953, no. 5, 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. 590 (catalogue A, no. 984), as Landscape with Barn. (Hale concordance).
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, pp. 266, 348; vol. 2, p. 809 ill. in b/w (fig. 285), as House and Tree.
Commentary

Probably featuring Branchville, this pastel was purchased directly from Twachtman in about 1889 by Catherine Patterson La Montagne (1859–1917), whose husband, Pierre La Montagne, was a prominent member of Brooklyn’s Rockaway Hunt Club. The work was inherited by Catherine’s niece, Harriet P. Winslow, by whose bequest it became part of the holdings of the Phillips Collection.