John Henry Twachtman Catalogue Raisonné
An online catalogue by Lisa N. Peters, Ph.D., in collaboration with the Greenwich Historical Society
Catalogue Entry
I.800
Winter Evening
ca. 1888
[medium and support unknown]
16 1/2 x 12 in. (41.9 x 30.5 cm)
Literature
Lampman, A[rchibald]. "Winter Evening (poem)." Scribner's (New York) 4 (December 1888), p. 748, ill. in b/w, as Winter Evening.
Coffin, William A. "American Illustration of Today." Scribner's 11 (February 1892), p. 204, ill. in b/w, as Winter Evening.
Auction catalogue, November 18, 1913, lot 714. New York: Fifth Avenue Art Rooms, 1913, lot 714, as Winter Evening.
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. 1, p. 512 (catalogue G, no. 738), as Winter Evening. (Hale concordance).
Commentary
This image, in an unknown medium, was reproduced in Scribner's Magazine in December 1888, accompanying the poem, "Winter Evening," by the Canadian poet Archibald Lampman (1861–1899). The image was used again in William Coffin's 1892 article in Scribner's on American illustration, which included examples of works made into illustrations by Robert Blum, H. Siddon's Mowbray, Irving R. Wiles, H. Bolton Jones, Bruce Crane, and Theodore Robinson. Coffin noted that Twachtman was "especially successful in making a beautiful page with the simplest of motives" and noted that "color is suggested oftentimes in his black and white drawings, and they are always eminently decorative."[1]
[1] Coffin 1892, pp. 198–99.