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The exhibition, Life and Art
October 6, 2021 - January 9, 2022
The exhibition, Life and Art: The Greenwich Paintings of John Henry Twachtman, to be held at the Greenwich Historical Society from October 6, 2021 to January 9, 2022, takes a unique holistic approach to Twachtman’s Greenwich oeuvre, considering it in a unified context, as one encompassing both the aesthetic modifications the artist made with land and architecture as his mediums and the images he derived from this subject matter.
From the beginning of his career, Twachtman was committed to creating landscape paintings in the realist tradition, seeking inspiration from his immediate observations, at home in America and on trips to Europe. However, he struggled with the realization that nature did not provide a sense of completeness he believed to be essential to art. In Greenwich he satisfied his desire for completeness by depicting a setting he was able to shape himself.
