The Pool

1890s

John Henry Twachtman American, 1853-1902

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Modern, Level 2, North Wing

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About the Artwork

Title The Pool

Artwork Date 1890s

Artist John Henry Twachtman

Life Dates 1853-1902

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 26 × 31 inches (66 × 78.7 cm) Framed: 33 9/16 × 38 5/8 × 3 1/8 inches (85.2 × 98.1 × 7.9 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department American Art before 1950

Credit Gift of Charles L. Freer

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 08.7

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Signed Signed, lower right corner: J H Twachtman

Provenance

John Henry Twachtman;
1908, Charles Lang Freer;
1908-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Fourth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists. Exh. cat., City Art Museum. St. Louis, 1909, no. 170.

Burroughs, Clyde. “Two Notable Gifts.” Bulletin of the DMA 3, no. 1 (January 1909): pp. 1-3 (ill.).

Burroughs, Clyde. “J.H. Twachtman.” Bulletin of the DMA 7, no. 3 (July 1913): pp. 52-53 (ill.).

Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts, Vol. 1. Detroit, 1930, no. 399 (ill.).

The More Important Paintings and Sculptures of the Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit. Detroit, 1937, p. 202 (ill.).

Hale, John Douglass. "The Life and Creative Development of John H. Twachtman." Ph. D. diss., Ohio State University. Columbus, 1957, p.564, no. 473. [as Pool]

John Henry Twachtman: A Retrospective Exhibition. Exh. cat., Cincinnati Art Museum. Cincinnati, 1966, no. 68.

American Impressionist Painting. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 63 (ill.).

Heritage and Horizon: American Paintings 1776-1976. Exh. cat., Albright-Knox Gallery. Buffalo, New York, 1976, no. 33 (ill.).

Boyle, Richard J. John Twachtman. New York, 1979, pp. 54-55, no. 17 (ill.).

Brunk, Thomas W. “A Note on Charles Lang Freer.” Bulletin of the DIA 59, no. 1 (1981): pp. 17-21 (ill.).

Color and Light: American Impressionist Paintings and Prints from Michigan Collections. Exh. cat., Grand Rapids Art Museum. Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1984, no. 14, 16, 17 (ill.).

Peters, Lisa N. "John Twachtman (1853-1902) and the American Scene in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Frontier within the Terrain of the Familiar." Ph. D. diss., City University of New York. New York, 1995, pp. 359, 497.

American Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts, Vol. 2. New York, 1997, p. 9.

American Beauty: Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts, 1770-1920. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 2002, p. 99, no. 72.

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