JOHN HENRY TWACHTMAN | Spring

The artist
George F. Of, New York, by 1901
Kennedy Galleries, New York, by 1966
Campanile Galleries, Chicago, Illinois
Dr. and Mrs. Robert B. Smythe, New Orleans, Louisiana, by 1971
Sold: Christie's, New York, December 3, 1982, lot 158
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale

(probably) New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, First Exhibition: Ten American Painters, March-April 1898, no. 36 (as Early Spring)
(probably) Boston, Massachusetts, St. Botolph Club, An Exhibition of Paintings by Ten American Painters, April-May 1898, no. 46 (as Early Spring)
Boston, Massachusetts, St. Botolph Club, Exhibition of Paintings by J.H. Twachtman and His Son, J. Alden Twachtman, February-March 1900, no. 11
Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of Works by John. H. Twachtman, January 1901, no. 13
Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, Exhibition of Sixty Paintings by Mr. John H. Twachtman Formerly Resident in Cincinnati, April-May 1901, no. 36
New York, Durand-Ruel Gallery, Paintings and Pastels by John H. Twachtman, March 1901
Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, John Henry Twachtman: A Retrospective Exhibition, October-November 1966, no. 27
New Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans Museum of Fine Art, New Orleans Collects, November 1971-January 1972
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, In the Eye of the Beholder: South Florida Collectors' Choice, December 1986-January 1987 
Orlando, Florida, Orlando Museum of Art, Hidden Treasures: American Paintings from Florida Private Collections, January-February 1992
New York, Spanierman Gallery, John Twachtman (1853-1902): A 'Painter's Painter,' May-June 2006, pp. 54, 68, 78, 170-71, illustrated

(probably) J.C. Van Dyke, "Ten American Painters," New York Evening Post, April 1, 1898, p. 7
(probably) "The Art World: Ten American Painters at the Durand-Ruel Gallery," New York Commercial Advertiser, March 29, 1898, p. 7
(probably) "American Painters Display," New York Times, March 30, 1898, p. 6
"Exhibitions of the Week," Chicago Times Herald, January 12, 1901
"Painting: The Quiet American," Time, vol. 88, no. 16., October 14, 1966, p. 91, illustrated 

The canvas is wax lined and there is frame abrasion at edges. There is fine surface cracking in the areas of thicker impasto. Under UV: there is inpainting to frame abrasion and inpainting along a 4 inch vertical crack extending from the right upper edge. Some other pigments fluoresce but appear to be the artist's original work.
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This painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the work of John Henry Twachtman by Lisa N. Peters, Ph.D. and Ira Spanierman.