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Icebound

John Henry Twachtman · c. 1889

Provenance

Ownership history

John Forsythe, Esq., New York, by 1913; sold, Clarke Auction Rooms, New York, Forsythe sale, Nov. 6-7, lot 119 [as "Snowbound"], to Montross Gallery, New York, 1917; sold to Paul Schulze Sr. (1864–1943) and Ida Schulze (1871–1956; born Ida Johl), Chicago, 1917; sold to the Friends of American Art, Art Institute of Chicago, 1917; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1917.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

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, Apr. 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, An Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art, Mar. 1–29, 1925, cat. 37, as Snow Bound.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, no. 485, ill. as Snow Bound.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, no. 462, as Snow Bound.
Art Institute of Chicago, Half a Century of American Art, Nov. 16, 1939–Jan. 7, 1940, no. 166, ill. pl. IV, as Snow–Bound.
Milwaukee–Downer College, Wisconsin, A Century of Landscape Painting by American Artists, 1851–1951, Feb. 13–Mar. 23, 1951, no. 8 as Snowbound.
Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art, An Exhibition of American Paintings for a Professor of American Art, Charles Chetham and Charles H. Morgan, May–Jun, 1964, no. 13, ill. as Snowbound.
Springfield, Illinois State Museum, Nineteenth Century American Paintings, Mar. 5–Apr. 24, 1966; Iowa, Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, May 19–June 5, 1966.
Cincinnati Art Museum, A Retrospective Exhibition: John Henry Twachtman, Oct. 7–Nov. 20, 1966, Richard J. Boyle, no. 72, ill. p. 7 as Snow Bound (Ice Bound).

Literature

Published references

Milwaukee Art Institute, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art, exh. cat. (Milwaukee Art Institute, 1925), n.p., cat. 37 (ill.), as Snow Bound.
James L. Yarnall, "John H. Twachtman's Icebound," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 71, no. 1 (Jan.–Feb., 1977), 1–5, fig. 2 (ill.).
William H. Gerdts, American Impressionism (Abbeville Press, 1984), no. 120, 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, 70 ill.
Art Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown, 1988), 98, ill.
Patricia J. Singer, “Chilly Scenes of Winter,” Connoisseur, 220, 936, (January 1990), 24, ill.
William H. Gerdts, American Impressionism (Einsiedeln: Eidolon AG, 1990), no. 41, 76–77, ill.
William H. Gerdts, Art Across America: Two Centuries of Regional Painting 1710–1920 (Abbeville Press, 1990), vol. 1, 9, 68, 118–121, 132, 177, 208, 258, 119, fig. 1.120, ill.
H. Barbara Weinberg, Doreen Bolger, and David Park Curry, American Impressionsim and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885–1915, exh. cat. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994), 61–63, 367, cat. 81, fig. 49 (ill.).
Judith A. Barter, et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 58 (ill.).
Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the Collection, (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2017) p. 76.

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