Autumn Landscape (1879–80): Art, History and Details

Autumn Landscape (1879–80) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is John Henry Twachtman (American, 1853–1902).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The spontaneous, sketchlike quality of this landscape suggests that Twachtman drew en plein air directly onto prepared copper plates. The almost bare limbs of the trees at the center evoke the transition from autumn to winter. Balancing the composition in the lower left is a small figure, possibly the artist, almost hidden in the grass.

Object facts

• Title: Autumn Landscape
• Date: 1879–80
• Creator attribution: John Henry Twachtman (American, 1853–1902)
• Culture: America
• Type: Print
• Technique: etching
• Collection: PR - Etching
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1945.391

Collection credit

Gift of Carl Fredric Clarke

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