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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.1432
Gray Day
Alternate titles: Grey Day; The Grey Day
ca. 1900–02
Oil on canvas
25 1/4 x 30 1/4 in. (64.1 x 76.8 cm)
Stamped lower left: Twachtman Sale [1903 estate sale]
Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State, Museum Purchase (73.53)
Provenance
(American Art Galleries, New York, Twachtman estate sale, March 24, 1903, no. 60, as The Grey Day );
to Edward A. Rorke, Brooklyn;
Robert McManamy Jr., Bedford Hills, New York, by 1928;
to (Babcock, 1930–48);
Sol Wilson;
to (Babcock, 1969);
to present collection, 1973.
Exhibitions
1903–I American Art Galleries
American Art Galleries, New York, Sale of the Work of the Late John H. Twachtman, exhibition and auction, March 19–24, 1903, no. 60, as Grey Day.
1983 Canton Art Institute
Canton Art Institute, Ohio, Impressionism: An American View, February 20–April 3, 1983, no. 60, p. 19, as Gray Day.
Literature
Sun 1903–II
"Twachtman Pictures, $16,610." Sun (New York), March 25, 1903, p. 5, as The Grey Day.
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. 452 (catalogue G, no. 222), as Grey Day. (Hale concordance).
Commentary

Painted thinly in the manner of a watercolor, this painting is probably a scene of Gloucester, perhaps depicting a view along Main Street in East Gloucester. It was titled Gray Day in Twachtman’s 1903 estate sale, where it was one of the ten paintings purchased by the amateur Brooklyn artist Edward A. Rorke (1856–1905).