Path in the Hills, Branchville, Connecticut, ca. 1888-95

Pastel on paper

10 x 12 inches

Signed lower left: J.H. Twachtman-

Provenance

estate of the artist

to [Milch Galleries, New York, by 1928-ca. 1942]

C.C. Gibson, San Francisco, as of 1957

[Bernard and S. Dean Levy, New York, by 1979]

to [art market, New York, 1979-80]

to private collection, 1980

Exhibited

Milch Galleries, New York, Exhibition of Paintings and Pastels by John H. Twachtman, March 12-24, 1928, no. 2 (as Cos Cob).

Babcock Galleries, New York, Paintings, Water Colors, and Pastels by John H. Twachtman, February 9-28, 1942, no. 23 (as Cos Cob, Conn.).

Literature

Hale, John Douglass. The Life and Creative Development of John H. Twachtman. 2 vols. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1957.  Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1958, p. 586, no. 926.

Note

This work was assigned the title of Cos Cob, Connecticut by Milch Galleries and shown under this name in 1928.  Since the scene does not appear to be Cos Cob and is similar to many of Twachtman's pastels of Branchville, its title has been changed.  The original title of the work is not known.  It was perhaps once known as The Path across the Hills, a pastel shown in Twachtman's solo exhibition at the Wunderlich Galleries in New York in March 1891.