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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Avondale, ca. 1880–82 (OP.504). OP.504, Avondale, detail with signature.
OP.504, Avondale, detail with signature.
Keywords
OP.504
Avondale
Alternate title: Landscape
ca. 1880–82
Oil on canvas
12 1/8 x 20 1/4 in. (30.8 x 51.4 cm)
Signed lower right: J. H. Twachtman
Private collection, Cincinnati
Exhibitions
1921 Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati Art Museum, Twenty-Eighth Annual Exhibition of American Art, May 28–July 3, 1921, no. 96, as Avondale, owned by Martin G. Dumler.
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. 1, pp. 185, 188 ill. in b/w (fig. 21), 189–90; vol. 2, p. 557 (catalogue A, no. 333), as Landscape. (Hale concordance).
Commentary

The painting's title indicates that it depicts the Cincinnati suburb where Twachtman lived in the home of his father-in-law after returning from his European honeymoon at the end of 1881. The scene seems rural. In the foreground, a stream curves through pastures where animals graze. However, in the upper left a large suburban home stands in isolation on the hillcrest.  

This painting's first-known owner was Martin G. Dumler (1868–1958), a Cincinnati painter and composer, who was president of Chatfield and Woods Sack Company of Cincinnati.