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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Keywords
OP.1129
The Waterfall
1890s
Oil on canvas
30 1/4 x 22 1/4 in. (76.8 x 56.5 cm)
Signed lower right: J. H. Twachtman [incised]
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Corcoran Collection; Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund (2015.19.8)
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. 92, as The Waterfall.
1966 Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati Art Museum, John Henry Twachtman: A Retrospective Exhibition, October 7–November 20, 1966. (Exhibition catalogue: Baskett 1966); (Exhibition catalogue: Boyle 1966–I), no. 57, as The Waterfall, lent by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1999 Strathmore Hall
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., American Impressionism: Selections from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, September 11–November 8, 1999, as The Waterfall.
Literature
Corcoran Gallery of Art 1947
Corcoran Gallery of Art. Handbook of the American Paintings in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1947, p. 59, as The Waterfall.
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. 576 (catalogue A, no. 680), as The Waterfall. (Hale concordance).
Phillips 1973
Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Vol. 2, Painters born from 1850 to 1910. Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1973, pp. 12–13 ill. in b/w, as The Waterfall.
Pierce 1976
Pierce, Patricia Jobe. The Ten. Concord, N.H.: Rumford, 1976, p. 140, ill. in b/w, as The Waterfall.
Commentary

In this image of Horseneck Falls, Twachtman arranged the composition in a compound curve by viewing the cascade from below looking west, while the water flows in the opposite direction. The rock at the top of the falls is set back along the brook in the upper right.  

This painting remained in the artist’s family until 1918, when it was sold by Macbeth to the Corcoran Gallery of Art. It remained there until the museum closed in 2014 and its collection was united with that of the National Gallery of Art.