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lower right: J. H. Twachtman

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Provenance

Purchased c. 1900 from the artist by Mrs. Lucius Horatio Bigelow [née Anna Gates Graham, 1848-1919], New York; by inheritance to her daughter, Mrs. Edward Lathrop Ballard [née Elizabeth Gates Biglow, 1876-1964], New York and Ridgefield, Connecticut; consigned to (sale, Coleman Auction Galleries, Inc., New York, 15 November 1963, no. 746, as Winter Scene); (Ira Spanierman, New York); sold 1963 to (Vose Galleries, Boston); purchased 1964 by NGA.

Exhibition History

1891
Possibly Wunderlich Gallery, New York, 1891.
1966
John Henry Twatchman: A Retrospective Exhibition, Cincinnati Art Museum, 1966, no. 69.
1968
Spirit of Romanticism [Springfield Art Festival], Drury College Art Gallery, Springfield, Missouri, 1968, no cat.
1969
In Memoriam, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1969, unnumbered checklist.
1971
French Impressionists Influence American Artists, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, 1971, no. 178.
1971
Wilderness, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1971, no. 162 (organized by the National Endowment for the Arts).
1973
American Impressionism, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Cincinnati Art Museum; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 1973-1974, no. 65.
1977
Turn-of-the-Century America: Paintings, Graphics, Photographs, 1890-1910, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; St. Louis Art Museum; Seattle Art Museum; Oakland Museum, 1977-1978, no. 77, repro.
1980
The Snow Show, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, 1980, no. 97.
1989
John Twachtman: Connecticut Landscapes, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, 1989-1990, no. 1.
1990
American Impressionism: Masterworks from Public and Private Collections in the United States, Fondazione Thyssen-Bornemisza, Villa Favorita, Lugano, Switzerland, 1990, no. 28.
1998
New Worlds from Old: 19th Century Australian & American Landscapes, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1998-1999, no. 100, repro.
1999
John Henry Twachtman: An American Impressionist, Cincinnati Art Museum; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2000, no. 49, repro. (shown only in Atlanta).
2009
Expanding Horizons: American and Canadian Painting and Photography: 1860-1918, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Vancouver Art Gallery,, 2009-2010, no 25, repro.

Bibliography

1970
American Paintings and Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970: 118, repro.
1979
Boyle, Richard J. John Twachtman. New York, 1979: 17, 42, color repro. 43.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 251, repro.
1980
Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1980: 138, no. 50, color repro.
1981
Williams 1981, color repro. 164-5, 193.
1988
Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Rev. ed. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988: 158, no. 56, color repro.
1989
Chotner, Deborah, Lisa N. Peters, and Kathleen Pyne. John Twachtman: Connecticut Landscapes. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1989: 27, 54.
1992
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 370, repro.
1992
Pyne, Kathleen. "Resisting Modernism: American Painting in the Culture of Conflict." In Thomas Gaehtgens and Heinz Ickstadt, eds., American Icons: Transatlantic Perspectives and Nineteenth-Century American Art. Santa Monica, California, 1992.
1998
Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 203-206, color repro.
2004
Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 335, no. 269, color repro.

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