JOHN HENRY TWACHTMAN (1853-1902)

Lot 132

132

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Details

JOHN HENRY TWACHTMAN (1853-1902)

Niagara Gorge

oil on canvas
30 x 30in. (76.3 x 76.3cm.)

Provenance

Mrs. Charles Carey, Buffalo
Lawrence Goodyear

Exhibited

Buffalo, Albright Art Gallery, 1913, no. 50
Buffalo, Buffalo State University College, Charles Burchfield Center, Our Legacy of Art in Western New York, Sept.-Oct. 1971

Lot Essay

In the 1890s, Twachtman was commissioned to paint a series of scenes of Niagara Falls for Charles Carey of Buffalo. Niagara Gorge is one of the pictures from that series. This painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonné of Twachtman's work being compiled by Ira Spanierman and Lisa N. Peters.