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Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Art Institute of Chicago, Second Annual Exhibition, American Oil Paintings, May 30-June 30, 1889, no. 39.

New York, Clarke’s Art Rooms, Valuable Modern Paintings Which Includes the collection of John Forsythe, Esq…, Nov. 6-7, 1913, no. 119.

New York, N.E. Montross Gallery, Exhibition of Pictures by Modern American Masters, April 17-May 5, 1917, no. 27.

Art Institute of Chicago, Special Exhibition of the Works in the Friends of American Art Collection, May 15-June 15, 1919.

Milwaukee Art Institute, Exhibition of Forty Paintings presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art, March 1-29, 1925, J.E.D.T., no. 37, ill. as Snow Bound.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1933, Robert B. Harshe, no. 485, ill. as Snow Bound.

Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, Robert B. Harshe, no. 462, titled Snow Bound.

Art Institute of Chicago, Half a Century of American Art, November 16, 1939-January 7, 1940, Daniel Catton Rich, no. 166, ill. pl. IV, as Snow-Bound.

Milwaukee-Downer College, Wis., A Century of Landscape Painting by American Artists, 1851-1951, February 13-March 23, 1951, no. 8 as Snow-bound.

Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, An Exhibition of American Paintings for a Professor of American Art, Charles Chetham and Charles H. Morgan, no. 13, ill. as Snowbound.

Springfield, Ill., Illinois State Museum, Nineteenth Century American Paintings, March 5-April 24, 1966; traveled to Iowa, Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, May 19-June 5, 1966.

Cincinnati Art Museum, A Retrospective Exhibition: John Henry Twachtman, October 7-November 20, 1966, Richard J. Boyle, no. 72, ill. p. 7 as Snow Bound (Ice Bound).

Seattle, University of Washington, Henry Gallery, The View and the Vision: Landscape Painting in Nineteenth-Century America, January 2-February 4, 1968, Roger B. Stein, no. 35, ill. p. 29 as Snowbound.

Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, American Impressionist Painting, July 1-August 26, 1973, Moussa M. Domit, no. 60, ill. p. 128 as Snow-Bound; traveled to New York, Museum of American Art, September 18-November 2; Cincinnati Art Museum, December 15-January 31, 1974; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, March 8-April 29.

New York, Coe Kerr Gallery, Masters of American Impressionism, March 9-April 3, 1976, Warren J. Adelson and Richard J. Boyle, no. 15, ill. as Snowbound.

Bonn, Germany, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Two Hundred Years of American Painting, June 30-July 31, 1976, no. 28; traveled to Belgrade, Yugoslavia, Museum of Modern Art, August 20-September 17; Rome, Italy, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna; Warsaw, National Museum of Poland, November 27-December 4.

Seattle, University of Washington, Henry Art Gallery, American Impressionism, January 3-March 2, 1980; traveled to University of California at Los Angeles, the Frederick S. Wight Gallery, March 9-May 4; Evanston, Ill. The Terra Museum of American Art, May 16-June 22; Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art, November 27-December 4.

West Palm Beach, Fla., Norton Gallery of Art, John Twachtman, Connecticut Landscapes, February 21-April 12, 1987, Deborah Chotner, et. al, no. 69, p. 70 ill.; traveled to National Academy of Design, May 8-August 16; Chicago, Terra Museum of American Art, September 10-November 1.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885-1915, May 10-July 24, 1994; traveled to Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Aug. 21-Oct. 30, 1994; Denver Art Museum Dec. 3, 1994-Feb. 5, 1995; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 12-May 14, 1995

West Palm Beach, Fl., Norton Museum of Art, Blanketed in Snow: American Winter Scenes accompanying George Bellows: Love of Winter, Dec. 6, 1997-Feb. 8, 1998 David Setford, John Wilmerding; traveled to The Newark Museum, New Jersey, Mar. 7-May 31, 1998; and the Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, July 10-Sept. 13, 1998.

Cincinnati Art Museum, John Twachtman: An American Impressionist, June 6-Sept. 5, 1999, Judy L. Larson; traveled to Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Oct. 16, 1999-Jan. 2, 2000 and Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Feb. 26-May 21, 2000 (organizer).

Publication History

William H. Gerdts, American Impressionism (New York: Abbeville Press, 1984), no. 120, p. 111, ill.

Bruce Weber and William Gerdts, In Nature’s Ways: American Landscape Painting of the Late Nineteenth Century (West Palm Beach: Norton Gallery of Art, 1987, cat. no. 69, p. 70 ill.

Art Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown, 1988), p. 98, ill.

Patricia J. Singer, “Chilly Scenes of Winter,” Connoisseur, 220, 936, (January 1990), p. 24, ill.

William H. Gerdts, American Impressionism (Einsiedeln: Eidolon AG, 1990), no. 41, pp. 76-77, ill.

William H. Gerdts, Art Across America: Two Centuries of Regional Painting 1710-1920 (New York: Abbeville Press, 1990), vol. 1, pp. 9, 68, 118-121, 132, 177, 208, 258, p. 119, fig. 1.120, ill.

Judith A. Barter et al, The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2011), no. 58.

Ownership History

John Forsythe, New York, by 1913; American Art Association, New York, 1913; N.E. Montross Gallery, New York, 1913; sold by them to the Art Institute, 1917.