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E.M. Foshay, Reflections of Nature: Flowers in American Art, New York, 1984, pp. 62-63
Twachtman, like many other late nineteenth-century artists, had an interest in flower gardening. Yet unlike the French Impressionists' carefully planned flower arrangements, Twachtman preferred a garden that preserved the wildness of nature, and he organized it so that nature took precedence over considerations of the palette; he sought to mold his art to the expression of nature...While he did not allow himself to depart from nature, he also did not permit a deviation from his own vision, and the tension in his work is the pull between the forces of self and of nature. (L.N. Peters, In the Sunlight: The Floral and Figurative Art of J.H. Twachtman, pp. 18-19)
Tiger Lilies, painted in the late 1890s, presents aspects of both the manicured garden and nature growing unconstrained: Tiger Lilies were known to have grown in Twachtman's personal garden in Connecticut, and are also one of the most common flowers to blossom on their own in the Greenwich countryside.
A pastel of this subject is in the collection of the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., and another painting, Tiger Lilies is in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Meyer P. Potamkin, Philadelphia.
E.M. Foshay, Reflections of Nature: Flowers in American Art, New York, 1984, pp. 62-63
Twachtman, like many other late nineteenth-century artists, had an interest in flower gardening. Yet unlike the French Impressionists' carefully planned flower arrangements, Twachtman preferred a garden that preserved the wildness of nature, and he organized it so that nature took precedence over considerations of the palette; he sought to mold his art to the expression of nature...While he did not allow himself to depart from nature, he also did not permit a deviation from his own vision, and the tension in his work is the pull between the forces of self and of nature. (L.N. Peters, In the Sunlight: The Floral and Figurative Art of J.H. Twachtman, pp. 18-19)
Tiger Lilies, painted in the late 1890s, presents aspects of both the manicured garden and nature growing unconstrained: Tiger Lilies were known to have grown in Twachtman's personal garden in Connecticut, and are also one of the most common flowers to blossom on their own in the Greenwich countryside.
A pastel of this subject is in the collection of the National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., and another painting, Tiger Lilies is in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Meyer P. Potamkin, Philadelphia.