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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

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Keywords
OP.602
Landscape
1881
Oil on panel
11 x 16 in. (27.9 x 40.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower left: J. H. Twachtman / 1881
Phoenix Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Bimson (1971.8)
Image: Ken Howie
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Walter R. Bimson;
gift to present collection, 1971.
Literature
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, pp. 145–46; vol. 2, p. 665 ill. in b/w (fig. 121), as Landscape.
Commentary

Dated 1881, this painting is one of three Dutch works, along with Landscape with Houses and Stream (OP.600) and Canal Scene, Holland (OP.601), that are related in their imagery, featuring a receding waterway, a stand of trees at the right, and farm buildings on the horizon line. In each, Twachtman depicted the locale at different times of day, and this image represents evening. The glow of the sunset is reflected in the water and the darkened shapes of trees and buildings have lost definition, resulting in a flatter, more abstract design.