Gloucester, ca. 1898–1902
Oil on canvas
Gift of the Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company 2002.1.144

John Henry Twachtman favored the diffused light that pervades this sun-washed landscape and applied his pigments thinly to suggest the summertime brilliance. He had first gathered a community of artists around him in Greenwich, where he settled in the late 1880s.

There, he offered lessons in plein air painting in the summers and taught in the winter in New York at the Art Students League. Between 1900 and 1902, Twachtman held summer classes in Gloucester, where he completed this painting.