Most artists visited Yellowstone in the summer because travel arrangements were so much easier. As a result, winter scenes were not very numerous.

Twachtman came in September 1895. It snowed during his visit, so he was able to paint the Falls with snow on the walls of the canyon. Twachtman painted in an impressionistic rather than realistic style.

He used a thick application of oil paints to provide texture to his paintings. It conveyed a sense of how the scene might look as the forms are affected by light.

Illustration: John Henry Twachtman, Waterfall in Yellowstone, ca. 1895, oil on canvas. Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, 22.69.