Pastures, Branchville, Connecticut (c. 1888–91): Art, History and Details

Pastures, Branchville, Connecticut (c. 1888–91) 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:

In the mid-1880s a group of American artists joined together to promote the expressive qualities of pastel. As a member of this group, known as the Society of Painters in Pastel, Twachtman contributed actively to their last three exhibitions in 1888, 1889, and 1890. As in this example, Twachtman incorporated the tone of his papers into his imagery, so that the paper becomes a part of the design itself. The most frequent subjects of his pastels were views of the fields and undulating countryside of Greenwich, Connecticut, with gentle rhythms punctuated by occasional trees and patches of wildflowers.

Object facts

• Title: Pastures, Branchville, Connecticut
• Date: c. 1888–91
• Creator attribution: John Henry Twachtman (American, 1853–1902)
• Culture: America
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: pastel on composition board
• Dimensions: Sheet: 37.9 x 45.7 cm (14 15/16 x 18 in.)
• Collection: DR - American 19th Century
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 1946.72

Collection credit

Gift of E. R. Brumley

Further reading listed by the museum

• Francis, Henry. "Recent Accessions to the Museum Collections." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 33, no. 9 (November 1946): 167-168.
• Hale, John Douglass. "Life and Creative Development of John H. Twachtman." 2 vols. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 1957. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms, 1958.
• Boyle, Richard J., Mary Welsh Baskett, and Philip R. Adams. John Henry Twachtman: A Retrospective Exhibition. Exh. Cat. Cincinnati: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1966.

View the collection record

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