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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
OP.919
Artist's Home in Autumn, Greenwich, Connecticut
Alternate titles: Golden Landscape; House in a Landscape; Landscape
ca. 1892–94
Oil on canvas
25 1/4 x 30 1/4 in. (64.1 x 76.8 cm)
Signed lower right: J. H. Twachtman [faintly]
Private collection
Image: Roz Akin
Provenance
Robert E. Tod, New York;
gift to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1930;
to (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, October 25, 1979, lot 130, as House in a Landscape);
to (Hirschl & Adler, 1979);
to Thomas Thompson, Houston;
to Lacey Neuhaus, Houston;
to (Berry-Hill Galleries, New York);
to Saul Siegel, Memphis, 1980;
to (Sotheby’s, New York, May 18, 2005, lot 40, as Golden Landscape);
to (Spanierman, 2005);
to present collection, 2008.
Exhibitions
1936 Art Association of Newport
Art Association of Newport, Rhode Island, Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of Artists Identified with Newport, Rhode Island, July 25–August 16, 1936, no. 96, as Landscape, lent by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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. 43, as Landscape, lent by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
1970 Hathorn Gallery
Hathorn Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, Some Quietist Painters: A Trend Toward Minimalism in Late Nineteenth-Century American Painting, April 8–29, 1970, no. 22, as Landscape, lent by Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
2006 Spanierman
Spanierman Gallery, New York, John Twachtman (1853–1902): A "Painter's Painter," May 4–June 24, 2006. (Nelson 2006); (Parkes 2006); (Peters 2006–I); (Peters 2006–II); (Peters 2006–III); (Peters 2006–IV), no. 38, as Artist's Home in Autumn, Greenwich, Connecticut. Traveled to: Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich, Connecticut, July 13–October 29, 2006.
Literature
Gardner 1957
Gardner, Albert Ten Eyck. A Concise Catalogue of the American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1957, p. 46, as Landscape.
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. 558 (catalogue A, no. 336), as Landscape. (Hale concordance).
Sotheby Parke Bernet 1981–II
American 19th- and 20th- Century Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, and Sculpture. Auction catalogue, October 25, 1979. New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1979, lot 130 ill., as House in a Landscape.
Sotheby's New York 2005
American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture. Auction catalogue, May 18, 2005. New York: Sotheby's, 2005, lot 40 ill. in color, as Golden Landscape.
Peters 2006–IV
Peters, Lisa N. "Catalogue." In John Twachtman (1853–1902): A "Painter's Painter", by Lisa N. Peters. New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2006. Exhibition catalogue (2006 Spanierman), pp. 154–55 ill. in color, as Artist's Home in Autumn, Greenwich, Connecticut.
Commentary

Depicting a view eastward toward the artist's home in Greenwich, this painting was rendered before Twachtman expanded his home farther to the west in the mid-1890s, building it into the hillside. This is revealed by the presence of its western gable end, which set against the hill rather than extending into it. Showing his home set high in the scene and protected by trees within the sun-dappled landscape, Twachtman gave the simple domestic structure a spiritual presence. 

When this painting was in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, from 1930 until 1979, it was known simply as Landscape, or House in Landscape, and its site was unknown.