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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

Catalogue Entry

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Keywords
P.937
Horseneck Falls
Late 1890s
Pastel on paper
26 x 21 1/2 in. (66 x 54.6 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Martha Twachtman, the artist's wife, Greenwich, Connecticut;
to her son, Godfrey Twachtman, 1920s (Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Twachtman, living Independence, Missouri by 1946);
to (Spanierman, ca. 1968);
to Joseph H. Hirshhorn, New York and Washington, D.C., 1968;
to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 1968;
to (Christie's, New York, December 4, 1987, lot 222);
to present collection, 1987.
Exhibitions
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. 104, as Horseneck Falls, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Twachtman, Independence, Missouri.
1968 Spanierman
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.
1971 Corcoran Gallery of Art
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 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. 587 (catalogue A, no. 936), as Horseneck Falls. (Hale concordance).
Christie's, New York 1987–II
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 1995
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).