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Icebound
Inscriptions
Signed recto, bottom-right, on snowy ground, in grey paint: "J. H. TWACHTMAN".
Provenance
John Forsythe, Esq., New York, by 1913; sold, Clarke Auction Rooms, New York, Forsythe sale, Nov. 6-7, lot 119 [as "Snowbound"], to Montross Gallery, New York, 1917; sold to Paul Schulze Sr. (1864–1943) and Ida Schulze (1871–1956; born Ida Johl), Chicago, 1917; sold to the Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 1917; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1917.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, Second Annual Exhibition, American Oil Paintings, May 30–June 30, 1889, no. 39. New York, Clarke’s Art Rooms, Valuable Modern Paintings Which Includes the collection of John Forsythe, Esq…, Nov. 6–7, 1913, no. 119. New York, N.E. Montross Gallery, Exhibition of Pictures by Modern American Masters, Apr. 17–May 5, 1917, no. 27. Art Institute of Chicago, Special Exhibition of the Works in the Friends of American Art Collection, May 15–June 15, 1919. Milwaukee Art Institute, An Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art, Mar. 1–29, 1925, cat. 37, as Snow Bound. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23–Oct. 31, 1933, cat. 485, as Snow Bound. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Oct. 31, 1934, cat. 462, as Snow Bound. Art Institute of Chicago, Half a Century of American Art, Nov. 16, 1939–Jan. 7, 1940, no. 166, ill. pl. IV, as Snow–Bound. Milwaukee–Downer College, Wisconsin, A Century of Landscape Painting by American Artists, 1851–1951, Feb. 13–Mar. 23, 1951, no. 8 as Snowbound. Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art, An Exhibition of American Paintings for a Professor of American Art, Charles Chetham and Charles H. Morgan, May–Jun, 1964, no. 13, ill. as Snowbound. Springfield, Illinois State Museum, Nineteenth Century American Paintings, Mar. 5–Apr. 24, 1966; Iowa, Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, May 19–June 5, 1966. Cincinnati Art Museum, A Retrospective Exhibition: John Henry Twachtman, Oct. 7–Nov. 20, 1966, Richard J. Boyle, no. 72, ill. p. 7 as Snow Bound (Ice Bound). Seattle, University of Washington, Henry Gallery, The View and the Vision: Landscape Painting in Nineteenth–Century America, Jan. 2–Feb. 4, 1968, Roger B. Stein, no. 35, ill. p. 29 as Snowbound. Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, American Impressionist Painting, July 1–Aug. 26, 1973, no. 60, ill. p. 128 as Snow–Bound; New York, Museum of American Art, Sept. 18–Nov. 2; Cincinnati Art Museum, Dec. 15–Jan. 31, 1974; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, Mar. 8–Apr. 29. New York, Coe Kerr Gallery, Masters of American Impressionism, Mar. 9–Apr. 3, 1976, no. 15, ill. as Snowbound. Bonn, Germany, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Two Hundred Years of American Painting, June 30–July 31, 1976, no. 28; Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Museum of Modern Art, Aug. 20–Sept. 17, 1976; Rome, Italy, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Oct–Nov. 1976; Warsaw, National Museum of Poland, Nov. 27–Dec. 4, 1976. Seattle, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, American Impressionism, Jan. 3–Mar. 2, 1980; University of California at Los Angeles, Frederick S. Wight Gallery, Mar. 9–May 4, 1980; Evanston, Terra Museum of American Art, May 16–June 22, 1980; Boston, Institute of Contemporary Art, Nov. 27–Dec. 4, 1980. West Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Gallery of Art, John Twachtman, Connecticut Landscapes, Feb. 21–Apr. 12, 1987, no. 69, p. 70 ill.; National Academy of Design, May 8–Aug. 16, 1987; Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, Sept. 10–Nov. 1, 1987. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885–1915, May 10–July 24, 1994, cat. 81; Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum, Aug. 21–Oct. 30, 1994; Denver Art Museum, Dec. 3, 1994–Feb. 5, 1995; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Mar. 12–May 14, 1995. West Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Museum of Art, George Bellows: Love of Winter, Dec. 6, 1997–Feb. 8, 1998; Newark Museum, Mar. 7–May 31, 1998; Columbus Museum of Art, July 10–Sept. 13, 1998. Cincinnati Art Museum, John Twachtman: An American Impressionist, June 6–Sept. 5, 1999, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Oct. 16, 1999–Jan. 2, 2000 and Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Feb. 26–May 21, 2000.
Publications
Milwaukee Art Institute, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art, exh. cat. (Milwaukee Art Institute, 1925), n.p., cat. 37 (ill.), as Snow Bound. James L. Yarnall, "John H. Twachtman's Icebound," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 71, no. 1 (Jan.–Feb., 1977), 1–5, fig. 2 (ill.). William H. Gerdts, American Impressionism (Abbeville Press, 1984), no. 120, 111, ill. Bruce Weber and William Gerdts, In Nature’s Ways: American Landscape Painting of the Late Nineteenth Century (West Palm Beach: Norton Gallery of Art, 1987, cat. no. 69, 70 ill. Art Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown, 1988), 98, ill. Patricia J. Singer, “Chilly Scenes of Winter,” Connoisseur, 220, 936, (January 1990), 24, ill. William H. Gerdts, American Impressionism (Einsiedeln: Eidolon AG, 1990), no. 41, 76–77, ill. William H. Gerdts, Art Across America: Two Centuries of Regional Painting 1710–1920 (Abbeville Press, 1990), vol. 1, 9, 68, 118–121, 132, 177, 208, 258, 119, fig. 1.120, ill. H. Barbara Weinberg, Doreen Bolger, and David Park Curry, American Impressionsim and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885–1915, exh. cat. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994), 61–63, 367, cat. 81, fig. 49 (ill.). Judith A. Barter, et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 58 (ill.). Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the Collection, (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2017) p. 76.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- John Henry Twachtman (American, 1853–1902)
- Date
- c. 1889
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 64.2 × 76.6 cm (25 5/16 × 30 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- Greenwich
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Friends of American Art Collection
- Accession no.
- 1917.200
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