id: 125092 accession number: 1946.72 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.72 updated: 2022-06-15 09:00:18.046000 Pastures, Branchville, Connecticut, c. 1888-91. John Henry Twachtman (American, 1853-1902). Pastel on composition board; sheet: 37.9 x 45.7 cm (14 15/16 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of E. R. Brumley 1946.72 title: Pastures, Branchville, Connecticut title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1888-91 creation date earliest: 1888 creation date latest: 1891 current location: creditline: Gift of E. R. Brumley copyright: --- culture: America, 19th century technique: pastel on composition board department: Drawings collection: DR - American 19th Century type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * John Henry Twachtman (American, 1853-1902) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 37.9 x 45.7 cm (14 15/16 x 18 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: gray-green sandpaper (discolored to light brown) (paper: P. L. Breveté) watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed, lower left, in crayon: J.H. Twachtman - ; along right edge, in graphite: 25 17 1/2 x 14 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: John Henry Twachtman Retrospective opening date: 1966-10-07T04:00:00 John Henry Twachtman Retrospective. The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (October 7-November 20, 1966). title: American Drawings from the Permanent Collection opening date: 1998-04-19T00:00:00 American Drawings from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 19-July 12, 1998). title: Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century opening date: 2004-08-15T00:00:00 Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004). title: Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2016-11-19T05:00:00 Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 19, 2016-March 19, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * John Henry Twachtman: A Retrospective Exhibition. Cincinnati Art Museum (October 7–November 20, 1966). --- PROVENANCE E. R. Brumley, New York, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: ?-1946 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1946- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: In the mid-1880s a group of American artists joined together to promote the expressive qualities of pastel. As a member of this group, known as the Society of Painters in Pastel, Twachtman contributed actively to their last three exhibitions in 1888, 1889, and 1890. As in this example, Twachtman incorporated the tone of his papers into his imagery, so that the paper becomes a part of the design itself. The most frequent subjects of his pastels were views of the fields and undulating countryside of Greenwich, Connecticut, with gentle rhythms punctuated by occasional trees and patches of wildflowers. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Hale, John Douglass. "Life and Creative Development of John H. Twachtman." 2 vols. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1957. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms, 1958. page number: Mentioned: vol. 2, p. 591 (catalogue A, no. 1010) url: Boyle, Richard J., Mary Welsh Baskett, and Philip R. Adams. John Henry Twachtman: A Retrospective Exhibition. Exh. Cat. Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1966. page number: Mentioned: no. 96 url: "A Check List: American Paintings and Water Colors of the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Early Twentieth Centuries in the Cleveland Museum of Art." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (January 1973). page number: Mentioned: p. 34 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.72/1946.72_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.72/1946.72_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1946.72/1946.72_full.tif