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When Duncan Phillips began collecting Twachtman's work in the late teens, it was the artist’s independence and budding modernity that Phillips admired the most. Phillips’s enthusiasm for Twachtman, encouraged initially through his contact with Weir, was reinforced by his friendship with Augustus Vincent Tack, who had studied with Twachtman, and it continued to grow as he became more involved with modern art. Even after Twachtman’s death, Phillips exhibited his work with paintings by living artists, explaining, “They are all modern in mind…and serve as connecting links between the past and the present.” By the early twenties, he was planning a Twachtman Room to display the "nuance of color in the work of this great master" against a backdrop of oriental pottery and antique glass.
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