John Henry Twachtman Catalogue Raisonné
An online catalogue by Lisa N. Peters, Ph.D., in collaboration with the Greenwich Historical Society
Catalogue Entry
P.937
Horseneck Falls
Late 1890s
Pastel on paper
26 x 21 1/2 in. (66 x 54.6 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
to present collection, 1987.
Exhibitions
Cincinnati Art Museum, John Henry Twachtman: A Retrospective Exhibition, October 7–November 20, 1966. (Exhibition catalogue: Baskett 1966); (Exhibition catalogue: Boyle 1966–I), no. 104, as Horseneck Falls, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Twachtman, Independence, Missouri.
Ira Spanierman, New York, John Henry Twachtman, 1853–1902: An Exhibition of Paintings and Pastels, February 3–24, 1968, no. 32, as Horseneck Falls, lent by the Hirshhorn Collection.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Wilderness, October 9–November 14, 1971, no. 161, as Horseneck Falls, lent by Joseph H. Hirshhorn Collection, New York.
Literature
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. 587 (catalogue A, no. 936), as Horseneck Falls. (Hale concordance).
Important American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries. Auction catalogue, December 4, 1987. New York: Christie's, 1987, lot 222 ill. in color, as Horseneck Falls.
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. 273; vol. 2, p. 828 ill. in b/w (fig. 305), as Horseneck Falls.
Commentary
Twachtman used pastel with the fluency of oil in this close-up view of Horseneck Falls, which relates in its cropping and flattening to the artist's late oils of this subject, such as The Cascade (OP.1139).