Autumn Landscape
John Henry Twachtman (American, 1853–1902)
1879–80
- Medium
- etching
- Classification
- Culture
- America
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Carl Fredric Clarke
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The spontaneous, sketchlike quality of this landscape suggests that Twachtman drew en plein air directly onto prepared copper plates. The almost bare limbs of the trees at the center evoke the transition from autumn to winter. Balancing the composition in the lower left is a small figure, possibly the artist, almost hidden in the grass.
