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.1429
Wonson's Wharf
Alternate title: Boat Landing
1900–1902
Oil on panel
10 x 14 in. (25.4 x 35.6 cm)
Stamped lower left: Twachtman Sale [1903 estate stamp]
Collection of John and Elizabeth Connolly
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. 38, as Wonson's Wharf.
Literature
Sun 1903–II
"Twachtman Pictures, $16,610." Sun (New York), March 25, 1903, p. 5, as Wonson's Wharf.
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. 542 (catalogue A, no. 54b), as Boat Landing. (Hale concordance).
Commentary

This painting bears the red stamp from Twachtman's 1903 estate sale, in which it was sold with its current title. Its buyer was listed in newspaper articles as Mrs. G. F. Dow, who purchased it for $80. However, the painting was later returned to the artist’s family, where it was owned by the artist’s daughter Marjorie. It remains today in the hands of her descendants. 

The painting depicts a profile view of the J. F. Wonson & Co. fish building, situated on Wonson's Wharf, which Twachtman featured in many of his scenes looking down on the shore from East Gloucester's Banner Hill.