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John Henry Twachtman American, 1853-1902 Windmill in the Dutch Countryside Oil on canvas 10 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches Provenance: The artist John Ferguson Weir, circa 1881 By descent in the family to private collection Private collection Exhibited: Wilmington, DE, Delaware Art Museum, Eight Delaware Collectors, Oct.-Nov. 1973 New York, Spanierman Gallery, LLC, John Twachtman: A "Painter's Painter," May 4-Jun. 24, 2006, no. 10; traveled to Greenwich, CT, The Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich, Jul. 13-Oct. 29, 2006 (pp. 46, 98-9 color illus.) New York, Spanierman Gallery, LLC, American Paintings: 1850-1965, Nov. 16, 2006-Jan. 13, 2007, no 20. (p. 16 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. 5 (p. 3 color illus.) Literature: John Douglass Hale, The Life and Creative Development of John H. Twachtman, 2 vols., Ph.D. diss., Ohio State University, 1957 (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1958), 458 (no. 274) Lisa N. Peters, "John Twachtman (1853-1902) and the American Scene in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Frontier within the Terrain of the Familiar," 2 vols., Ph.D. diss., City University of New York, 1995 (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International, 1996) Lisa N. Peters. John Twachtman: A "Painter's Painter." Exh. cat. New York: Spanierman Gallery, LLC, pp. 46, 98-9 color illus. (no. 10) American Paintings: 1850-1965. New York: Spanierman Gallery, LLC, 2006, p. 16 color illus. (no. 20) Lisa N. Peters, John Henry Twachtman: Seeing Abstractly-Works on Paper and Small Oils, online exh. cat. (New York: Spanierman Gallery, LLC, 2011) 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. Painted by Twachtman on his 1881 honeymoon in Holland, Windmill in the Dutch Countryside conveys the artist's delight in the warm colors and compositional possibilities of the lowland countryside. Here he captured the way that windmills and horizontal barns seemed an outgrowth of nature, facilitating compositions that are unified yet not overly structured. In Dordrecht, Twachtman and his wife were joined at some point by J. Alden Weir and his half-brother John Ferguson Weir. The latter, the first known owner of the painting, may have received the work from Twachtman as a token of their friendship and a memory of their pleasure in exploring the Dutch countryside together. C The Spanierman Gallery, LLC