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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P.922
Road to Round Hill
ca. 1890–95
Pastel on paper
7 x 11 1/4 in. (17.8 x 28.6 cm)
Signed lower left: J. H. Twachtman–
Location unknown
Exhibitions
1891 Wunderlich probably
H. Wunderlich & Co, New York, Paintings in Oil and Pastels by J. H. Twachtman, March 1891, no. 23, as Road to Round Hill.
1893 American Art Galleries probably
American Art Galleries, New York, Paintings, Pastels, and Etchings by J. Alden Weir, J. H. Twachtman, Claude Monet, and Paul Albert Besnard, by May 4–mid-November 1893, no. 36, as Road to Round Hill, pastel.
1907–I Lotos Club probably
Lotos Club, New York, Exhibition of Paintings by the Late John H. Twachtman, January 5–31, 1907, no. 20, as Road to Round Hill.
1913 New York School of Applied Design for Women probably
New York School of Applied Design for Women, Fifty Paintings by the Late John H. Twachtman, January 15–February 15, 1913, no. 41, as Road to Round Hill.
Literature
New York Evening Post 1891 probably
"Art Notes: Pictures by J. H. Twachtman at Wunderlich." New York Evening Post, March 9, 1891, p. 7, as Road to Round Hill.
New York Times 1891 probably
"Art Notes." New York Times, March 9, 1891, p. 7, as Road to Round Hill.
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. 534 (catalogue G, nos. 1018, as Round Hill Road, 1019a, 1019b, and 1020), as Road to Round Hill. (Hale concordance).
Sotheby Parke Bernet 1981–I
American Impressionist and 20th-Century Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, and Sculpture. Auction catalogue, May 29, 1981. New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1981, lot 38 ill. in b/w, as Road to Round Hill.
Christie's, New York 2006–II
American Paintings. Auction catalogue, November 30, 2006. New York: Christie's, 2006, lot 6 ill. in color, as Road to Round Hill.
Commentary

This pastel was probably Road to Round Hill, a pastel included in Twachtman’s exhibitions at Wunderlich in 1891 and at the American Art Galleries in 1893. (Round Hill Road in Greenwich was once known as The Road to Round Hill.) In 1891 a critic for the New York Evening Post included Road to Round Hill in a description of the pastels on view as “clever little drawings.” The critic went on to note: “There is more reality and more form and some nice color notes in these, and as pastel sketches they are satisfying enough, though why the artist should not have given a little more solidity in the rendering of his motives is about the first thing one asks in looking at them.”[1]

By 1907 this pastel belonged to the artist and botanist Caroline Coventry Haynes (1858–1951), who lent it to the large exhibition of Twachtman’s works at the Lotos Club, New York. Haynes still owned the same work in 1913, when she lent it to the exhibition that year at the New York School of Applied Design for Women.

[1]New York Evening Post 1891.