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John Henry Twachtman American, 1853-1902 Near Paris, circa 1885 Pastel and graphite pencil on paper 10 x 12 3/4 inches Provenance: J. Alden Weir To his daughter, Mrs. G. Page Ely (nee Caroline Weir), Old Lyme, CT, by 1945 By descent through the family Exhibited: New London, CT, Lyman Allyn Museum, Work in Many Media by Men of the Tile Club, Mar. 11-Apr. 23, 1945, no. 155 (as Spanish Walls, 7-1/2 x 11 inches, lent by Mr. and Mrs. G. Page Ely, Old Lyme, CT) New York, Spanierman Gallery, LLC, John Twachtman: A "Painter's Painter," May 4-Jun. 24, 2006, no. 15; traveled to: Greenwich, CT, The Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich, Jul. 13-Oct. 29, 2006, pp. 108-9 color illus. New York, Spanierman Gallery, American Works on Paper, 1800 to the Present, Apr. 1- May 1, 2010, p.13 color illus. New York, Spanierman Gallery, LLC, John Henry Twachtman: Seeing Abstractly-Works on Paper and Small Oils, Dec. 15, 2011-Jan. 14, 2012, no. 7, p. 4 color illus. Literature: John Douglass Hale, The Life and Creative Development of John H. Twachtman, 2 vols., Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms, 1958, Ohio State University, 1957, vol. 2, p. 591, cat. A, no. 1006, as Near Paris Lisa N. Peters. John Twachtman: A "Painter's Painter." Exh. cat. New York: Spanierman Gallery, LLC, pp. 108-109 color illus., no. 15 Lisa N. Peters, John Henry Twachtman: Seeing Abstractly-Works on Paper and Small Oils, online exh. cat., New York: Spanierman Gallery, LLC, 2011, http://www.spanierman.com/PDF-catalogue-books/John-H-Twachtman-Seeing-Abstractly-2011.pdf, accessed March 1, 2012, p. 4 color illus., no. 7 This painting will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonne of the work of John Henry Twachtman by Lisa N. Peters, Ph.D. and Ira Spanierman. Among a small number of the pastels Twachtman rendered in Europe, Near Paris, is the artist's only work in the medium identified as a scene of France. As the limited number of pastels from this time demonstrate, Twachtman readily adhered to a Whistlerian technique of limiting detail, incorporating the tone of his paper into his design, and using his chalks with textural sensitivity. A pastel entitled The Rosy Morn exhibited by Twachtman at the Inter-State Industrial Exposition in Chicago in September 1889 may well have been similar to this work. A critic for the Chicago Tribune wrote that in it "the effect is good. Houses the color of his paper frankly for the body tone, and dashes on a landscape in a dozen strokes or two." Probably given by Twachtman to his close friend Weir after his return from Europe, this pastel remained in the Weir family until 2001. C The Spanierman Gallery, LLC