Deserted Wharf (The Old Mill at Cos Cob)
John Henry Twachtman (American, 1853–1902)
before 1899
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
61.5 × 51 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
American Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of Julia Morgan Marlatt
Accession Number
1942.122
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
male
About this artwork
In 1892, John Twachtman, one of the most imaginative of the American Impressionists, established a summer colony at Cos Cob, Connecticut. This painting depicts the Holley Mill near Cos Cob. Unlike the French Impressionists, who tended to analyze the effects of light and color in a scene, Twachtman was interested in expressing the pure poetry of color and his emotional response to the changes he observed in nature.