JOHN HENRY TWACHTMAN (1853-1902)

Little Giant, ca. 1900-02

Oil on canvas

20 x 24 inches

Provenance

Martha Scudder Twachtman (the artist's wife), Greenwich, Connecticut

Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Twachtman (Godfrey Twachtman was the artist's son), Independence, Missouri

[Milch Gallery, New York]

private collection

[New York art market, 1987]  David Findlay, Inc., NY

Exhibitions

New York School of Applied Design for Women, New York, Exhibition of Fifty Paintings by the Late John H. Twachtman, January 15-February 15, 1913, cat. no. 18 (as Ferry at East Gloucester).

Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings and Pastels by the Late John H. Twachtman, March 11 - April 2, 1913, cat. no. 13 (as Ferry at East Gloucester).

Cincinnati Art Museum, A Retrospective Exhibition: John Henry Twachtman, October 7 - November 20 1966, p. 19, cat. no. 89.

Ira Spanierman Gallery, New York, Twachtman in Gloucester: His Last Years, 1900-1902, May 12 - June 13, 1987, pp. 62 -63, cat. no. 7, illus.

Literature

John Douglass Hale, The Life and Creative Development of John H. Twachtman, 2 vols. (Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1958), Ohio State University, 1957, p. 550, cat. no. 201 (as Little Giant), and p. 446, cat. no. 167 as (Ferry at East Gloucester).

David Findlay Jr., On the Spot: American Painting 1865-1930, (New York: David Findlay Jr., Inc., 1985), cat. no. 10, color illus.

                   , Twachtman in Gloucester: His Last Years, 1900 - 1902 (New York: Ira Spanierman Gallery, 1987), p. 12.

Note                                                                                       

This painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the work of John Henry Twachtman by Ira Spanierman and Dr. Lisa N. Peters.


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