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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.823
Orchard
Alternate titles: Orchard Hillside; The Orchard
ca. 1888–95
Pastel on paper over laminated paperboard
8 3/4 x 16 1/16 in. (22.2 x 40.8 cm)
Signed lower right: J. H. Twachtman–
Cheekwood, Nashville, Tennessee, Museum purchase (88.14.3)
Provenance
Julian Alden Weir;
by descent in the family;
(Peter Davidson);
present collection, 1988.
Exhibitions
1891 Wunderlich probably
H. Wunderlich & Co, New York, Paintings in Oil and Pastels by J. H. Twachtman, March 1891, no. 20, as The Orchard.
1907–I Lotos Club probably
Lotos Club, New York, Exhibition of Paintings by the Late John H. Twachtman, January 5–31, 1907, no. 40, as Orchard Hillside.
Literature
Mail and Express 1891 probably
"The World of Art: An Impressionist's Work in Oil and Pastel—Mr. J. H. Twachtman's Pictures." Mail and Express (New York), March 26, 1891, p. 3, as The Orchard.
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. 533 (catalogue G, nos. 1002, and 1003, as Orchard Hillside), as The Orchard. (Hale concordance).
Christie's, New York 1988–I
19th- and 20th-Century Important American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture. Auction catalogue, May 26, 1988. New York: Christie's, 1988, lot 205, as Orchard.
Commentary

This pastel was probably the work exhibited as The Orchard in 1891 at Wunderlich. A reviewer for the New York Mail and Evening Express wrote: “'On Weir's Farm' is delicious in color, and so is 'The Orchard.'” The pastel belonged to Weir, who lent it in 1907 to the Lotos Club, which included “paintings and pastels, loaned by various collectors and by [the artist's] widow.”[1] This drawing was rendered on a heavily threaded rag paper, attached to a laminated paperboard, but only the primary support is probably original.

[1] New-York Tribune 1907.