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Autumn Landscape

1879–80

John Henry Twachtman

(American, 1853–1902)
Culture
America
Medium
etching
Credit Line
Gift of Carl Fredric Clarke 1945.391
Catalogue raisonné
Baskett 4
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
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Description

The spontaneous, sketchlike quality of this landscape suggests that Twachtman drew en plein air directly onto prepared copper plates. The almost bare limbs of the trees at the center evoke the transition from autumn to winter. Balancing the composition in the lower left is a small figure, possibly the artist, almost hidden in the grass.
A horizontally oriented print in black ink with fine, hatched lines depicts a dense thicket of trees. Spindly branches reach upward toward a pale sky. In the foreground, a small, dark figure sits among wavy lines representing grass on the lower left. To the left, low hills recede into the distance. Deep shadows are created through dense, overlapping strokes, while faint horizontal lines suggest clouds above the textured landscape.

Autumn Landscape

1879–80

John Henry Twachtman

(American, 1853–1902)
America

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