John Henry Twachtman
American Impressionist Painter, 1853-1902
American painter and printmaker. He began as a painter of window-shades but developed one of the most personal and poetic visions in American landscape painting, portraying nature on canvases that were, in the words of Childe Hassam, 'strong, and at the same time delicate even to evasiveness'. His first artistic training was under Frank Duveneck, with whom he studied first in Cincinnati and then in Munich (1875-7). His absorption of the Munich style, characterized by bravura brushwork and dextrous manipulation of pigment, with the lights painted as directly as possible into warm, Related Paintings of John Henry Twachtman :. | Meadow Flowers | The White Bridge, | The White Bridge | End of the Rain | Winter Harmony | Related Artists: Albert Bierdstadtpainted Bernese Alps in 1859 Jose Julio Sousa Pintopainted Barco desaparecido in 1890 Hendrick Leys1815-1869
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Hendrick Leys Gallery
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