Dc Memorial Art Gallery Article by Lisa a Johnson

The White Span

ca. 1900
30 1/4 x 25 1/8 in. (76.8 ten 63.eight cm)

John Henry Twachtman
American (Cincinnati, OH, 1853 - 1902, Gloucester, MA)

Object Type: Painting

Medium and Support: Oil on sail

Credit Line: Gift of Emily Sibley Watson

Accretion Number: 1916.nine

Location: Currently on view

Impressionism, a radically modernistic style upon its inception in France in the 1860s, came late to American shores. The Impressionist artist sought to capture impressions of light, color, and shape in a spontaneous manner.
[Gallery label text, 2007]

John Twachtman's finest paintings were inspired by the beauty of the country on which he lived with his family. Located in Greenwich, Connecticut, the picturesque holding included a portion of Horseneck Brook, beyond which Twachtman built an ornamental but functional footbridge. Here, his children swam in the summer and rowed their boat beneath the bridge's arched deck. The bridge may have been inspired by similar structures in Venice, where the artist lived in the 1880s and 90s.

Twachtman was one of America'south premier impressionist painters and a founding fellow member of the X American Painters, a grouping that included Thomas Dewing and William Merritt Chase, artists whose works are also on view at Mag. The White Bridge'due south bright colors, energetic brushwork, and light-filled sail link Twachtman's work with that of French impressionist Claude Monet.

[Gallery characterization text, 2004]

Marks

Creative person's signature, lower right: J. H. Twachtman

Provenance

Mrs. John E. (Gertrude) Cowdin, 1907; her auction, American Fine art Association, New York, May 9-11, 1916, lot no. 168; purchased by Macbeth Galleries, New York at that sale; purchased by Mrs. James Sibley Watson, Rochester, NY, for the Gallery, 1916

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Exhibition Listing

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

• Twachtman Lotos Club 1907
• A Permanent Loan to the Memorial Art Gallery from a Friend 9/26/1916 - 10/31/1916
• Exhibition of Contemporary American Paintings and of the Permanent Collection vi/29/1917 - x/four/1917
• UR centennial brandish in Sibley, Lindsay & Curr Co. department store windows October 1950
• In Focus: A Look at Realism in Art 12/28/1964 - 1/31/1965
• John Henry Twachtman: A Retrospective Exhibition Cincinnati Art Museum 10/vii/1966 - xi/twenty/1966
• Treasures from Rochester Memorial Art Gallery 4/xiv/1977 - five/28/1977
• William Cullen Bryant, The Weirs and American Impressionism Nassau County Museum of Art 4/24/1983 - vii/31/1983
• Artistic Traditions: From the Academy to Impressionism in American Art Cummer Gallery of Art ten/23/1986 - ane/eleven/1987
• John Twachtman: Connecticut Landscapes The National Gallery of Art (Washington) 10/15/1989 - 5/20/1990
• Masterworks of American Impressionism Collection Thyssen-Bornemisza seven/22/1990 - x/28/1990
• John Twachtman: An American Impressionist High Museum of Art 6/half dozen/1999 - 5/21/2000
• The Cos Cob Art Colony: Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore National Academy of Design two/13/2001 - one/xx/2002
• American Impressionism: A New Vision Terra Museum of American Art 3/28/2014 - two/1/2015
• Japan America: Points of Contact, 1876-1970 8/27/2016 - 5/27/2017

Bibliography

This object has the post-obit bibliographic references:

• Article Author: Morgan, Joan B.. Commodity Scope: Entry and reproduction. Susan Dodge Peters, ed. Memorial Art Gallery: An Introduction to the Collection. New York, New York: Memorial Art Gallery in clan with Hudson Hills Printing, 1988. Folio Number: 192-193
• Article Scope: Reproduction only. Rochester Memorial Fine art Gallery of the Academy of Rochester Handbook. Rochester, NY: Academy of Rochester Printing, 1961.
• Commodity Scope: Entry and reproduction. Denys Sutton. Treasures from Rochester: Exhibited at Wildenstein Galleries, New York, April xiv-May 28, 1977: Summary Catalogue. Rochester, New York: Memorial Fine art Gallery, 1977.
• Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Richard H. Love. Carl West. Peters: American Scene Painter from Rochester to Rockport. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 1999.
• Article Author: Peters, Lisa North.. Article Title: The Suburban Aesthetic: John Twachtman'south "White Bridge". Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Porticus. Rochester, NY: Memorial Fine art Gallery Book Number: XVII-19 Issue Engagement: 1994-96. Page Number: 50-56, Figure Number: one
• American Artist. Stamford, CT: Watson-Guptill Publications
• Article Author: Larkin, Susan G.. Commodity Championship: On Habitation Basis: John Twachtman and the Familiar Landscape. Commodity Scope: Article and reproduction. The American Fine art Journal. New York, NY: De Capo Press Book Number: XXIX, Effect Number: 1 and 2. Issue Date: 1998. Page Number: 71, Figure Number: 19
• Susan Thousand. Larkin. The Cos Cob Art Colony: Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore. New York, NY: National Academy of Design, 2001.
• Article Scope: Mention. Judith A. Barter. American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I. Chicago, IL: Art Establish of Chicago, 1998.
• Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Victoria Jane Ream. Fine art in Bloom: A New Art Form Combining Painting and Sculpture with Floral Design. Table salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Disinterestedness, 1997.
• Article Title: Twachtman Art Gets Highest Bids. Article Scope: Mention. The New York Times. New York, NY: H.J. Raymond & Co Issue Appointment: May 10 1916. Folio Number: 13
• Article Author: Peters, Lisa Due north.. Article Title: Twachtman's Greenwich Paintings: Context and Chronology. Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Deborah Chotner. John Twachtman: Connecticut Landscapes. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1989. Page Number: 40, Figure Number: Frontispiece (det.); cat. 20
• Article Telescopic: Entry. William H. Gerdts. Masterworks of American Impressionism. Lugano-Castagnola, Switzerland: Thyssen-Bornemisza Foundation, 1990.
• Article Telescopic: Reproduction only. Richard Boyle. John Twachtman. New York, NY: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1979.
• The Heath Introduction to Poetry. Lexington, MA: DC Heath, 1987.
• Article Scope: Reproduction but. Ulrich W. Hiesinger. Impressionism in America: The Ten American Painters. Munich, Germany: Prestel-Verlag, 1991.
• Commodity Scope: Reproduction only. Elizabeth Montgomery. American Impressionists. New York, NY: Crescent Books, 1991.
• Article Scope: Reproduction only. Ingo F. Walther. Malerei des Impressionismus, 1860-1920. Bonn, Germany: Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1992.
• Commodity Scope: Commodity and reproduction. William H. Gerdts. American Impressionism. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1984.
• Commodity Telescopic: Entry. Lisa North. Peters. John Henry Twachtman: An American Impressionist. Atlanta, GA: High Museum of Fine art, 1999.
• Article Writer: May, Stephen. Article Championship: Integrity Rewarded: The Art of John H. Twachtman. Article Scope: Article and reproduction. Timeline. Outcome Date: July/August 1999. Page Number: 13, fifteen, Figure Number: 15
• Article Telescopic: Article and reproduction. Valuable Ancient and Modern Paintings. New York, NY: The American Art Association, May 1916.
• Article Scope: Entry. Artistic Traditions: From the University to Impressionism in American Art. Jacksonville, FL: The Cummer Gallery of Art, 1987.
• Article Scope: Mention. Elizabeth Brayer. Magnum Opus: The Story of the Memorial Art Gallery, 1913-1988. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 1988.
• Grant Holcomb, Iii, ed. Voices in the Gallery: Writers on Art. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Printing, 2001.
• Irondequoit Printing. Irondequoit, NY: Irondequoit Printing
• Article Author: Ledes, Allison Eckhardt. Commodity Title: Electric current and Coming. Article Telescopic: Mention and reproduction. Antiques. New York, NY: Straight Enterprises, Inc. Result Appointment: Nov 1989. Page Number: 942
• Mag. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery
• Memorial Art Gallery. Clear. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2000--.
• Article Writer: Larkin, Susan G.. Article Title: John Henry Twachtman: The White Span. Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Marjorie B. Searl, ed. Seeing America: painting and sculpture from the collection of the Memorial Fine art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Rochester, NY: Memorial Fine art Gallery, 2006. Folio Number: 132-135
• Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Katherine 1000. Bourguignon. American Impressionism: A New Vision 1880-1900. New Haven, CT: Yale Academy Press, 2014.
• Article Scope: Entry and reproduction. Nancy Eastward. Green. JapanAmerica: Points of Contact, 1876-1970. Ithaca, NY: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2016.
• Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Marjorie Searl and Lu Harper. The Memorial Fine art Gallery: 100 Years. Rochester, NY: Memorial Art Gallery, 2013.
• Hartford Courant. Hartford, CT
• John Douglass Hale. Life and Artistic Development of John H. Twachtman. Ohio Country University, 1957.
• Fine art Times.
• Lisa N. Peters. John Twachtman (1853–1902) and the American Scene in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Frontier within the Terrain of the Familiar. New York, NY: City University of New York, 1995.
• Susan G. Larkin. 'A Regular Rendezvous for Impressionists:' The Cos Cob Fine art Colony 1882–1920. New York, NY: City Academy of New York, 1996.
• Article Scope: Mention and reproduction. Lisa N. Peters. Life and Fine art: The Greenwich Paintings of John Henry Twachtman. Cos Cob, CT: Greenwich Historical Society, 2021.

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