Pastures, Branchville, Connecticut
John Henry Twachtman (American, 1853–1902)
c. 1888–91
- Medium
- pastel on composition board
- Classification
- Drawing
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 37.9 x 45.7 cm (14 15/16 x 18 in.)
- Culture
- America
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of E. R. Brumley
- 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
In the mid-1880s a group of American artists joined together to promote the expressive qualities of pastel. As a member of this group, known as the Society of Painters in Pastel, Twachtman contributed actively to their last three exhibitions in 1888, 1889, and 1890. As in this example, Twachtman incorporated the tone of his papers into his imagery, so that the paper becomes a part of the design itself. The most frequent subjects of his pastels were views of the fields and undulating countryside of Greenwich, Connecticut, with gentle rhythms punctuated by occasional trees and patches of wildflowers.
