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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
D.1417
Charcoal Sketch after Fishing Boats at Gloucester
ca. 1900
Charcoal on paper
3 1/2 x 5 1/8 in. (8.9 x 13 cm)
Inscribed verso: Looking on the / decks of / vessels. Gray / and white / 25 x 30
Private collection
Provenance
Given by the artist to his son J. Alden Twachtman, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1900;
by descent to estate of Alden Eric Twachtman;
by descent in the family to present collection, 1990.
Commentary
One of the twenty-four charcoal sketches Twachtman sent to his son Alden, after paintings he created in Gloucester in the summer of 1900, this depicts Fishing Boats at Gloucester (OP.1420), conveying its strong foreground shapes seen from above and the buildings receding along the crowded shoreline. On drawing's verso, Twachtman accurately recorded the painting's dimensions, with its height listed first: "25 x 30," and wrote: "Looking on the decks of vessels. Gray and white."