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
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OP.906
Afternoon Shadows
Alternate title: Landscape
ca. 1890
Oil on canvas
21 1/8 x 17 1/4 in. (53.7 x 43.8 cm)
Signed lower left: J. H. Twachtman–
Provenance
Exhibitions
Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, American Paintings by the Ten, January 1–February 10, 1946, no. 30, as Landscape.
Cincinnati Art Museum, John Henry Twachtman: A Retrospective Exhibition, October 7–November 20, 1966. (Exhibition catalogue: Baskett 1966); (Exhibition catalogue: Boyle 1966–I), no. 40, as Landscape, lent by the Brooklyn Museum.
Literature
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. 426 (catalogue G, no. 4), as Afternoon Shadows. (Hale concordance).
Brooklyn Museum. The Brooklyn Museum: American Paintings. New York: Brooklyn Museum, 1979, p. 115 ill. in b/w, as Landscape.
American Paintings. Auction catalogue, May 25, 2006. New York: Christie's, 2006, lot 3 ill. in color, as Afternoon Shadows.
Commentary
Afternoon Shadows appears to depict the front (south facade) of the artist's Greenwich home in about 1892–93, at a point when there were two dormers on its older (eastern) section but before the last phase of remodeling extended the newer (western) section farther to the west. At the left, the western gable end is flush with the hillside.