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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
OP.798
A Country Road
Alternate title: Cloud Shadows
ca. 1886–88
Oil on canvas
10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.6 cm)
Signed lower right: J. H. Twachtman
Provenance
(American Art Galleries, New York, Twachtman estate sale, March 24, 1903, no. 2, as Cloud Shadows);
to John Gellatly, New York;
Frederic Fairchild Sherman, by 1941;
to Mrs. Frederic Fairchild Sherman;
to William U. Witman, ca. 1946.
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. 2, as Cloud Shadows.1941 George Walter Vincent Smith Art Gallery
George Walter Vincent Smith Art Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts, The Private Collection of Frederic Fairchild and Julia Munson Sherman: A Memorial Exhibition, March 31–May 4, 1941, no. 75, as A Country Road, oil on canvas, 10 x 14 in, signed lower right.Literature
Sun 1903–II
"Twachtman Pictures, $16,610." Sun (New York), March 25, 1903, p. 5, as Cloud Shadows.Curran 1910
Curran, Charles C. "The Art of John H. Twachtman." Literary Miscellany 3 (Winter 1910), p. 70 ill., as A Country Road.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. 440 (catalogue G, no. 126, as Cloud Shadows), as Cloud Shadows. (Hale concordance).Commentary
This unlocated painting is related to road scenes of the mid- and late 1880s, such as Spring Freshit (OP.531) and Winding Road with Rock and Tree (OP.736). The work was included in the artist's estate sale of 1903 as Cloud Shadows. Its buyer was the noted collector John Gellatly and it was later was owned by the art critic Frederic Fairchild Sherman. The only image of the work is an illustration in Charles Curran's 1910 article on Twachtman.