Wild Flowers
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John Henry Twachtman was a founding member of The Ten, a group of American Impressionists who broke from the established art organizations in 1898 to exhibit together on their own terms. Wild Flowers is a pastel on paper, now in the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Thin stems rise through a warm yellow ground, their white blossoms massing at the top in soft, chalky strokes with touches of pale blue and green scattered throughout. Twachtman trained in Munich and Paris before settling on a farm in Greenwich, Connecticut, in 1890, where he painted the same property obsessively across seasons — he was often compared to Monet for this habit, and the two were shown together in New York in 1893.