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JOHN HENRY TWACHTMAN (1853-1902)
Niagara Falls
signed 'J.H. Twachtman' (lower right)
oil on canvas
1714 x 1414 in. (43.8 x 36.2 cm.)
Painted circa 1893-94.
Provenance
Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York.
Private collection, New York.
Private collection, by descent from the above.
Christie's, New York, 23 May 2001, lot 1.
Acquired by the late owner from the above.
Exhibited
Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Art Museum, A Retrospective Exhibition: John Henry Twachtman, October 7-November 20, 1966, p. 16, no. 64.
New York, Ira Spanierman, John Henry Twachtman, 1853-1902: An Exhibition of Paintings & Pastels, February 3-24, 1968, no. 18.
FURTHER DETAILS
This work is included as number OP.1207 in the John Henry Twachtman Catalogue Raisonné (jhtwachtman.org/) by Dr. Lisa N. Peters in collaboration with the Greenwich Historical Society.
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Lot Essay

The present work was likely painted on one of the artist's trips to Niagara Falls in the winter of 1893-94 and summer of 1894. A related painting, also titled Niagara Falls, is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, New York.

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