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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P.812
Three Trees
Alternate title: Through the Trees
ca. 1888–95
Pastel on tan paper
14 x 18 in. (35.6 x 45.7 cm)
Signed lower right: J. H. Twachtman–
Brooklyn Museum, Museum Surplus Fund (25.416)
Exhibitions
1932 Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum, New York, Exhibition of Paintings by American Impressionists and Other Artists of the Period 1880–1900, January 18–February 28, 1932, no. 136, as Through the Trees.
2001 National Academy of Design
National Academy of Design, New York, The Cos Cob Art Colony: Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore, February 13–May 13, 2001. (Larkin 2001–I), as Three Trees. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 17–September 16, 2001; Denver Art Museum, October 27, 2001–January 20, 2002.
Literature
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. 592 (catalogue A, no. 1034), as Three Trees. (Hale concordance).
Brooklyn Museum 1984
Brooklyn Museum. American Watercolors, Pastels, Collages. New York: The Brooklyn Museum, 1984, p. 76 ill. in b/w, as Three Trees.
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, p. 265; vol. 2, p. 806 ill. in b/w (fig. 282), as Three Trees.
Larkin 2001–I
Larkin, Susan G. The Cos Cob Art Colony: Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore. New York: National Academy of Design in association with Yale University, 2001. Exhibition catalogue (2001 National Academy of Design), pp. 24 ill. in color, 25, 81, as Three Trees.
Commentary

In this view of Branchville, Twachtman created a consciously considered design in which three prominent trees are both in the foreground and aligned with the picture plane, framing the farm buildings and trees in the distance.