The Waterfall, 1890/1900

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

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.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund)

Accession Number

2015.19.8

Artists / Makers

John Henry Twachtman (artist) American, 1853 - 1902

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Inscription

lower right: J H TwAchtMAn

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art

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2003: The Impressionist Tradition in America, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 19 July 2003 - 18 October 2004, unpublished checklist.

2013: American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013 - 28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.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.