拍品专文
John Henry Twachtman is celebrated for his atmospheric compositions that express a highly personal and poetic vision of the landscape. An Early Winter exemplifies this style of Impressionist landscape painting, with its feathery brushstrokes and refined tonalist palette. The painting exemplifies Twachtman's Impressionist style, characterized by feathery brushstrokes, low-key harmonies of gray and green, and an almost monochrome palette, which calls to mind James McNeill Whistler's muted and delicate compositions. Twachtman's use of broad, flat areas of color also suggests the influence of Japanese prints.
Richard Boyle writes, "John Twachtman was a landscape painter from the start. . . He was more comfortable painting from nature; his attitude toward it was essentially romantic and contemplative. Landscape to him was not just a motif as it was to Monet and later to Cézanne. Twachtman was genuinely close to it; he was part of it. 'To be isolated is a fine thing,' he wrote to [Julian Alden] Weir in 1891, 'and we are then nearer to nature. I can see how necessary it is to live in the country--at all seasons of the year.'" (John Twachtman, New York, 1988, p. 18)
This painting, executed cira 1883, will be included in the forthcoming cataloue raisonné of Twachtman's work being compiled by Ira Spanierman and Dr. Lisa Peters.
Richard Boyle writes, "John Twachtman was a landscape painter from the start. . . He was more comfortable painting from nature; his attitude toward it was essentially romantic and contemplative. Landscape to him was not just a motif as it was to Monet and later to Cézanne. Twachtman was genuinely close to it; he was part of it. 'To be isolated is a fine thing,' he wrote to [Julian Alden] Weir in 1891, 'and we are then nearer to nature. I can see how necessary it is to live in the country--at all seasons of the year.'" (John Twachtman, New York, 1988, p. 18)
This painting, executed cira 1883, will be included in the forthcoming cataloue raisonné of Twachtman's work being compiled by Ira Spanierman and Dr. Lisa Peters.