Object details
Accession number
P11s34
Primary Creator
John Henry Twachtman
(Cincinnati, 1853 - 1902, Gloucester, Massachusetts)
Full title
The Lagoon, Venice
Creation Date
1885
Provenance
Entered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
Marks
Inscribed (lower left): J.H. Twachtman –
Dimensions
34 x 40 cm (13 3/8 x 15 3/4 in.)
Display Media
Pastel on paper
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Macknight Room
Bibliography
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 384.Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 69.John Douglass Hale. The Life and Creative Development of John H. Twachtman, vol. 1. Phd. Diss. (Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University, 1957), p. 593, no. 1044.Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 266, ill. Karen Haas in Theodore E. Stebbins et al. The Lure of Italy: American Artists and the Italian Experience, 1760-1914. Exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1992), pp. 418-19, no. 122. (as 1885?)Lisa N. Peters. "John H. Twachtman: A 'Modern' in Venice, 1877-1878" in Irma B. Jaffe (ed.). The Italian Presence in American Art, 1860-1920 (New York, 1992), pp. 76-77, pl. 47. (as about 1885)Lisa N. Peters. John Twachtman (1853-1902) and the American Scene in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Frontier within the Familiar. PhD Diss. (New York: City University of New York, 1995), pp. xxvi, 212, 741.Elizabeth Anne McCauley et al. Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 2004), pp. 264-65, 276, fig. 215. (as 1885)Eliza Butler. "John Henry Twachtman and the Materiality of Snow" (Chicago: American Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Fall 2019), pp. 78, fig. 4.
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