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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Exhibitions
1970 University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin, Recent Acquisitions of the Michener Collection, August 3–September 2, 1970, as Harbor View.
1971 University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin, Crosscurrents in Twentieth-Century American Painting from the Michener Collection, September 14–October 3, 1971, as Harbor View.
1972 University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin, The Michener Collection: American Paintings of the Twentieth Century: Inaugural Exhibition in the Michener Galleries, November 22, 1972–January 1, 1973, as Harbor View.
1974 University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin, Twentieth Century American Painting: The First Five Decades from the Michener Collection, July 22, 1974–January 5, 1975, as Harbor View.
1975 University of Texas at Austin
University of Texas at Austin, Tradition and Revolution: Pioneer American Painters in the Michener Collection, January 5–February 2, 1975, as Harbor View.
Literature
Parke-Bernet 1969–I
18th–20th-Century American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture. Auction catalogue, March 19–20, 1969. New York: Parke-Bernet, 1969, lot 173 ill. in b/w, as Harbor View.
Texas Quarterly 1970
"Paintings in the Collection of the University of Texas." Texas Quarterly 8 (Spring 1970), 312 ill. in b/w, as Harbor View.
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. 93–94; vol. 2, p. 635 ill. in b/w (fig. 81), as Harbor View.
Peters 1999–I
Peters, Lisa N. John Henry Twachtman: An American Impressionist. Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1999. Exhibition catalogue (1999 High Museum of Art), pp. 38–39 ill. in b/w, as Harbor View.
Peters 2006–II
Peters, Lisa N. "Twachtman's Realist Art and the Aesthetic Liberation of Modern Life." In John Twachtman (1853–1902): A "Painter's Painter", by Lisa N. Peters. New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2006. Exhibition catalogue (2006 Spanierman), pp. 40–41 ill. in color (fig. 35), as Harbor View.
Commentary

Although depicting what appears to be a small farm on a bluff, tugboats are anchored at the shore, indicating the close proximity of industry. The painting is among the views of Jersey City that Twachtman created in 1879, including The Boat Yard (OP.309) and Coast Scene (OP.310), in which he depicted rural places in transition as they were becoming developed.