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John Henry Twachtman BiographyAmerican Impressionist painterborn 1853 - died 1902 Student of:
William Merritt Chase
(1849-1916),
Frank
Duveneck (1848-1919). |
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John Henry Twachtman (1853-1902) was one of
the leading American impressionist painters.
His most characteristic work is marked by an
extreme lightness of palette that approaches
pure white. |
. The summers of 1900 to 1902 were spent in Gloucester, Massachusetts where Twachtman joined his old friend Duveneck and other painters many of whom started their careers in Cincinnati. For John Henry Twachtman Gloucester paintings, he painted alla prima, returning to the bold painterly style of his Munich years, but retaining the bright colors of his Greenwich Period. |
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One-man shows of John Henry Twachtman paintings and pastels
were held in New York, Chicago, and
Cincinnati in 1901. In the summer of 1902, the painter died suddenly in Gloucester.
Several of his colleagues wrote at the time
of his modernity, the "great beauty of design" in John Henry Twachtman painting, and his
ability to express the spirit of the places John Henry Twachtman painted. Thomas
Dewing wrote: "By the death of the painter, the world has lost an artist of the first rank. He is too modern,
probably, to be fully recognized or appreciated at present: but his place will
be recognized in the future." During the following decade, Twachtman traveled back and forth between Europe and Cincinnati and New York, exhibiting John Henry Twachtman paintings and teaching. In New York he forged friendships with contemporary American artists such as William Merritt Chase, J. Alden Weir, John Weir, Theodore Robinson, and Childe Hassam. Perhaps influenced by these new contacts, he moved to Paris, where he enrolled at the Académie Julian in 1883. As a result of his studies there John Henry Twachtman developed a lighter palette. The painter at this point had begun to focus on landscape painting. John Henry Twachtman was equally interested in capturing the atmospheric conditions of a scene in the tradition of English artist John Constable, and in interpreting natural elements through expressive painterly techniques as seen in the painting of J. M. W. Turner. Twachtman expanded the visual design elements of color, line, and perspective to create a certain perceptible mood in John Henry Twachtman paintings. The farm was the inspiration for much of later John Henry Twachtman paintings, providing subjects that ranged from the waterfall to his gardens, arbors, woodlands, and even a footbridge he had constructed. Visible in all of these compositions is the inspiration John Henry Twachtman found in the painting of Claude Monet. |
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his capricious colors and his lavish impasto lend spontaneous and vibrant beauty to the rushing cascade, which hovers on the verge of abstraction. The effervescence of light gleaming off the water as it tumbles over rocks and across fissures is as much about nature as it is about the act of painting. Despite his advanced age, the artist's exuberance is also visible in this fully realized work by a master in complete control of his process.
John Henry Twachtman died in 1902. |