The Waterfall
1890/1900
Artist, American, 1853 - 1902
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 76.52 × 56.04 cm (30 1/8 × 22 1/16 in.)
framed: 92.71 × 72.39 × 8.26 cm (36 1/2 × 28 1/2 × 3 1/4 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.8
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The artist [1853-1902], Greenwich, Connecticut; by inheritance to his wife, Martha Scudder Twachtman, Greenwich;[1] purchased May 1918 through (Macbeth Galleries, New York) by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art.
[1] Apparently the painting hung for a short tiime in the New York home of the collector John Gellatly; see a letter of 17 March 1918 from Mrs. Twachtman to William MacBeth, and a letter of 20 March 1918 in reply, in MacBeth Gallery Records, reel 2652, frames 359-361, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington; copy in NGA curatorial files..
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1971
Loan for use by the United States Embassy, Moscow, 30 October 1971 - 1972.
1994
Loan for use by Ambassador Elizabeth Bagley, United States Embassy, Lisbon, 29 November 1994 - 31 October 1997.
1999
American Impressionism: Selections from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Strathmore Hall Arts Center, North Bethesda, Maryland, 11 September - 8 November 1999, unnumbered catalogue.
2003
The Impressionist Tradition in America, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 19 July 2003 - 18 October 2004, unpublished checklist.
2013
American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013 - 28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.
Bibliography
1973
Phillips, Dorothy W. A Catalogue of the Collection of American Paintings in the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Vol. 2: Painters born from 1850 to 1910. Washington, 1973: 12, repro. 13.
2011
Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 320, repro.
Inscriptions
lower right: J H TwAchtMAn
Wikidata ID
Q46631824