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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
OP.1516
Bridge in Winter, Cos Cob, Connecticut
Alternate title: Bridge in Winter
ca. 1901–02
Oil on canvas
25 x 25 in. (63.5 x 63.5 cm)
Stamped lower right: Twachtman Sale [1903 estate sale]
Fayez Sarofim Collection
Provenance
(American Art Galleries, New York, Twachtman estate sale, March 24, 1903, no. 50, as Bridge in Winter);
to Arthur Tooth & Sons;
(McClees Galleries, Philadelphia);
private collection, Philadelphia, by 1943;
(Salander-O'Reilly, New York, by 1983);
to (Hirschl & Adler, 1983);
to (Meredith Long, Houston, 1984);
to present collection, 1984.
Exhibitions
1903–I American Art Galleries
American Art Galleries, New York, Sale of the Work of the Late John H. Twachtman, exhibition and auction, March 19–24, 1903, no. 50, as Bridge in Winter.
Literature
Sun 1903–II
"Twachtman Pictures, $16,610." Sun (New York), March 25, 1903, p. 5, as Bridge in Winter.
New York Times 1903–III
"Twachtman Picture Sale." New York Times, March 25, 1903, p. 5, as Bridge in Winter.
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. 436 (catalogue G, no. 91), as Bridge in Winter. (Hale concordance).
Neff and Shackelford 1994
Neff, Emily Ballew, and George Shackelford. American Painters in the Age of Impressionism. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1994. Exhibition catalogue, pp. 43, 108 ill. in color, as Bridge in Winter, Cos Cob, Connecticut.
Commentary

In this view from the porch of the Holley House, Cos Cob (see Glossary of Names) in winter, the strongly foreshortened diagonal of the bridge (that was also a dam), is continued by the opposing shoreline, which trails off into the snow-filled atmosphere. The red square building in the far right background is a store that stood next to the defunct Palmer & Duff shipyard (see Bridge in Winter, OP.1513).