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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

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Connecticut Landscape, ca. 1890–91 (OP.1162). Fig. 1. OP.1162, Connecticut Landscape, detail showing signature.
Fig. 1. OP.1162, Connecticut Landscape, detail showing signature.
Connecticut Landscape, ca. 1890–91 (OP.1162). verso, OP.1162, Connecticut Landscape, detail showing label.
verso, OP.1162, Connecticut Landscape, detail showing label.
Keywords
OP.1162
Connecticut Landscape
Alternate title: Autumn in Connecticut
ca. 1890–91
Oil on panel
15 x 20 in. (38.1 x 50.8 cm)
[Signed lower right by the artist's wife: J. H. Twachtman / MST]
Private collection
Provenance
Martha Twachtman, the artist's wife, Greenwich, Connecticut;
to (Milch);
probably Mrs. Walter W. Murphy;
probably to (Samuel T. Freeman & Co., Philadelphia, February 6, 1935, lot 69);
Mrs. Walter W. Murphy;
LeRoy Ireland, as of 1944-ca. 1949;
(Hirschl & Adler);
to (G. Castano Gallery, 1965);
(Vose, by 1965);
to private collection, ca. 1965;
by descent to present collection.
Exhibitions
1928 Milch probably
Milch Galleries, New York, An Important Exhibition of Paintings and Pastels by John H. Twachtman, March 12–24, 1928, no. 6, as Autumn in Connecticut.
2022–23 New Bedford Whaling Museum
New Bedford Whaling Museum, Massachusetts, Re/Framing the View: Nineteenth-Century American Landscapes, October 28, 2022–May 14, 2023. (Slipp 2022), as Connecticut Landscape.
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. 468 (catalogue G, no. 364), as Connecticut Landscape. (Hale concordance).
Slipp 2022
Naomi Slipp et al. Re/Framing the View: Nineteenth-Century American Landscapes. New Bedford, Massachusetts: New Bedford Whaling Museum, 2022. Exhibition catalogue (2022–23 New Bedford Whaling Museum), p. 153 ill. in color, as Connecticut Landscape.
Commentary

This work, signed for the artist by his wife (fig. 1), seems to be a view looking south along Round Hill Road. The house or barn, cropped at the right, is probably that of Twachtman's neighbor, the African American stone mason Samuel Merritt. The white shape beyond it, alongside the road is probably the roof at the eastern side of Twachtman's house, whereas the rest of the house is hidden by trees. Just over the brow of the hill are two brown pointed forms. They are probably the barns seen prominently in Hayrick (OP.1165). The tree at the left is the tall maple or elm on the opposite side of the road that appears in many images, including Spring Landscape (OP.904). The tops of trees and haystacks over the brow of the hill indicate its steep descent as it heads south. In the work, the paint is thickly applied with light greens and lavenders dominating.