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John Twachtman
American Impressionist painter
born 1853 - died 1902
Student of:
William Merritt Chase
(1849-1916),
Frank Duveneck
(1848-1919).
Teacher of: Leon Kroll (1884-1974),
Ernest Lawson (1873-1939).
Assistant to:
William Merritt Chase
(1849-1916).
twäktˈmən, 1853–1902, American landscape painter and etcher, b.
Cincinnati.
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, John Twachtman became a leading Impressionist
and Tonalist painter of atmospheric landscapes of the late 19th century.
He was a founding member of Ten American Painters, a group that broke
away from the disciplines of the Academy of Design in New York City. Art
historian William Gerdts described Twachtman as "the most consistently
admired of all the Impressionists painters until the denunciation of
Impressionism in American in the wake of more avant-garde
developments.(108).
In 1893, he won a Silver Medal from the World's Columbian Exposition in
Chicago, and in 1894 was commissioned by Charles Carey of Buffalo, New
York to do a series of paintings of Niagara Falls, which was quite a
change to his usual subjects of painting the woods of Connecticut. The
next year Major William Wadsworth of Genesco, New York commissioned him
to do a series of four paintings of the western half of Yellowstone Park
in Wyoming. Arriving in September of 1895, he was so taken with the
scenery and its contrast to his own environment that he did extra
paintings for himself. |
