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Church Towers

Oil on canvas
30 1/8 x 30 1/4 inches
Circa 1925–1926

As published in: Scenic Impressions: Southern Interpretations from the Johnson Collection

As exhibited in: 
Launching Savannah's Art Scene: Founders of the Savannah Art Club, 2020, Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia

Scenic Impressions: Southern Interpretations from the Johnson Collection, 2015–2018, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee; Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia; McKissick Museum of Art at the University of South Carolina, Columbia; Telfair Museums, Savannah, Georgia; Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee; Rosalind Sallenger Richardson Center for the Arts at Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina

William Chadwick was affiliated with the art colony in Old Lyme, Connecticut, an important breeding ground for American Impressionism. The emphasis there was on plein air painting—painting outdoors.

Chadwick spent the winters of 1924 and 1925 in Savannah, Georgia, teaching classes for the Savannah Art Club at the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences. Church Towers represents the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, an imposing French Gothic structure dating from the late nineteenth century. Bright winter light illuminates the church and its surroundings. The rectangular vernacular structures in the foreground juxtapose the angular elegance of the soaring cathedral.

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