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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
OP.1501
The Lower Landing, Cos Cob Harbor
1890s
Oil on canvas
21 x 26 in. (53.3 x 66 cm)
Private collection
Provenance
Martha Twachtman, the artist's wife, Greenwich, Connecticut;
to her son, Quentin Twachtman, 1936;
to his children, Charlotte Twachtman Soutter; Phyllis Twachtman; and John Twachtman, 1953;
to (Kennedy Galleries, New York, 1975);
to private collection, 1976;
to (Cincinnati Art Galleries, 2017);
to present collection, 2019.
Commentary
Like so many of Twachtman's works, this painting's title is not original. The scene depicts a view of Cos Cob’s Lower Landing (see Cos Cob, OP.1500), featuring its warehouses and stores. The building at the far right appears too small to be the tide-powered mill operated by Joseph P. Holley, which was built about 1763 and burned down in January 1899. However, it is possible that Twachtman diminished its scale for compositional purposes. The painting was one possibly created by Twachtman as a demonstration piece for his Cos Cob students, who followed his example in setting up their easels across the mill dam from the Lower Landing (see OP.1500, fig. 3).
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