About This Artwork
John Henry Twachtman
American, 1853-1902
The White Bridge, after 1895
Oil on canvas
75 x 75 cm (29 1/2 x 29 1/2 in.)
Signed, lower left: "J. H. Twachtman"
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1937.1042
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
New York School of Applied Design for Women, Exhibition of Fifty Paintings by the late John H. Twachtman, January 15-February 15, 1913, no. 36.
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings and Pastels by the Late John H. Twachtman, March 11-April 2, 1913, no. 27 as The Bridge.
New York, American Art Galleries, Paintings by Ancient and Modern Masters, May 4-9, 1916 (?), no. 78 as The White Bridge.
Art Institute of Chicago, Summer Exhibitions: Paintings from the Permanent Collections, July 20-October 29, 1939, no. 12 as The White Bridge.
Illinois, Decatur Art Center, Millikin University, Masterpieces of European and American Art Lent by the Art Institute of Chicago, March 4-25, 1945, Reginald H. Neal, no. 16; traveled to Springfield Art Association, Ill., April 4-30.
South Bend Art Association, Ind., American Painting in the Manner of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, February 10-March 31, 1948, James Murray Haddow, no. 55.
Cincinnati Art Museum, A Retrospective Exhibition: John Henry Twachtman, October 7-November 20, 1966, Richard J. Boyle, no. 59.
Charlotte, N.C., The Mint Museum, American Masterpieces from American Museums, November 10, 1985-January 5, 1986.
West Palm Beach, Fla., Norton Gallery of Art, In Nature’s Ways: American Landscape Painting of the Late Nineteenth Century, February 21- April 12, 1987, Bruce Weber and William Gerdts, no. 69, ill. p. 70; traveled to New York, National Academy of Design, May 8-August 16, 1987; Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, September 10-November 1, 1987.
"John Twachtman: An American Impressionist" Cincinatti: 6/6/99 - 9/5/99; Philadelphia: 10/7/99 - 1/2/2000 and Atlanta 2/12/2000 - 5/27/2000
Publication History
American Art Annual for 1915-1916, 13, p. 394.
Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (The Netherlands, 1961), p. 457.
John Douglass Hale, The Life and Creative Development of John H. Twachtman, vol. 1, Ph.D., diss. Ohio State University, 1957, p. 435.
Lisa N. Peters, “The Suburban Aesthetic: John Twachtman’s ‘White Bridge,’” Porticus, 17-19 (1994-96), pp. 51-56.
Susan G. Larkin, “On Home Ground: John Twachtman and the Familiar Landscape,” American Art Journal, 29, 1 & 2 (1998), pp. 52-85, fig. 19.
Ownership History
Alexander Morton, New York, by 1916; American Art Galleries, New York, 1916; Macbeth Galleries, New York, 1916;
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago, Ill.; 1916; bequested by them to the Art Institute, 1937.