Pastures, Branchville, Connecticut
Medium
pastel on composition board
Dimensions
{"sheet":{"height":0.379,"width":0.457}}
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of E. R. Brumley
Accession Number
1946.72
Tags
male
About this artwork
In the mid-1880s a group of American artists joined together to promote the expressive qualities of pastel. As a member of this group, known as the Society of Painters in Pastel, Twachtman contributed actively to their last three exhibitions in 1888, 1889, and 1890. As in this example, Twachtman incorporated the tone of his papers into his imagery, so that the paper becomes a part of the design itself. The most frequent subjects of his pastels were views of the fields and undulating countryside ...