| − | In 1897, Twachtman became a founding member of the Ten American Painters (or "The Ten"), a group of artists who seceded from the Society of American Artists and exhibited together for the next twenty years. [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11532686] | + | In 1897, Twachtman became a founding member of the Ten American Painters (or "The Ten"), a group of artists who seceded from the Society of American Artists and exhibited together for the next twenty years; [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=11532686] the organizing members of this New York and Boston based group were Frederic Child Hassam (1859-1935), Julian Alden Weir (1852-1919), and John Henry Twachtman (1853-1902). They were soon joined by Thomas Dewing (1851-1938), Edward Simmons (1852-1931), Joseph Rodefer De Camp (1858-1923), Willard Metcalf (1858-1925), Frank Benson (1862-1951), Robert Reid (1862-1929), Edmund Tarbell (1862-1938), and upon Twachtman's death, William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) and later by Winslow Homer (1836-1910). [http://www.antiquesandfineart.com/articles/article.cfm?request=844] |