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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OP.1155
Horseneck Brook in Winter
1890s
Oil on canvas
26 x 36 in. (66 x 91.4 cm)
Signed lower right: J. H. Twachtman
Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia, Gift of Ruth Woods Dayton (1967.1.242)
Exhibitions
1957 Carnegie Institute
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, American Classics of the Nineteenth Century, October 18–December 1, 1957, no. 99, as Horseneck Brook in Winter, lent by the Daywood Art Gallery. Traveled to: Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, January 5–26, 1958; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, February 14–March 16, 1958; Baltimore Museum of Art, April 8–May 4, 1958; Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, May 22–June 25, 1958.
2019–23 International Art and Artists
International Arts and Artists, Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, American Impressionism: Treasures from the Daywood Collection, August 2019–May 2023, as Horseneck Brook in Winter. Traveled to: Mitchell Gallery, Annapolis, Maryland, August 19–October 27, 2019; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Indiana, September 19–December 13, 2020; Lightner Museum, St. Augustine, Florida, April 8–July 5, 2021; Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida, July 31–October 24, 2021; Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida, November 18–February 13, 2021; Las Cruces Museum of Art, New Mexico, April 29–July 23, 2022; Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, Washington, October 8, 2022–January 8, 2023; Historic City Hall Arts & Cultural Center, Lake Charles, Louisiana, January 28–March 25, 2023.
Literature
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. 578 (catalogue A, no. 738), as Horseneck Brook in Winter. (Hale concordance).
Daywood Art Gallery 1964
Catalogue. Lewisburg, W. Va.: Daywood Art Gallery, 1964, p. 33, as Horseneck Brook in Winter.
Peters 1995
Peters, Lisa N. "John Twachtman (1853–1902) and the American Scene in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Frontier within the Terrain of the Familiar." 2 vols. Ph.D. dissertation, City University of New York, 1995. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1996, vol. 1, p. 351; vol. 2, p. 887 ill. in b/w (fig. 373), as Horseneck Brook in Winter.
Campbell, Connor 2022
Campbell, Connor. "New Exhibit Highlights Impressionist Art Movement in America." Gonzaga Bulletin, October 30, 2022, as Horseneck Brook in Winter.
Commentary

Horseneck Brook's presence is below the snow in this image of a deep winter snowfall from which only a few rocks protrude. 

This painting was owned in the 1950s by Walter Reitz (b. 1885), who was an executive in Oil City, Pennsylvania. In 1956, Reitz gave the work to the Daywood Gallery in Lewisburg, West Virginia, created by Arthur and Ruth Woods Dayton for their collection. The collection was donated to its present collection in 1967.