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George Inness

Harvest Moon, 1891

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 76.2 × 113.03 cm (30 × 44 1/2 in.)

framed: 109.22 × 147.32 cm (43 × 58 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Mabel Stevens Smithers)

Accession Number

2014.136.73

Artists / Makers

George Inness (painter) American, 1825 - 1894

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Provenance

(Thomas Benedict Clarke [1848-1931]), New York.[1] William H. Fuller [d. 1902], New York, by 1892;[2] returned 1893 to (Thomas Benedict Clark);[3] (his sale, American Art Association, New York, 14-18 February 1899, no. 266); Francis Sydney Smithers [1849-1919], Glen Cove and New York City;[4] by inheritance to his wife, Mabel Stevens Smithers [b. 1868]; bequest 18 April 1952 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

[1] The painting is mentioned in a 20 September 1891 New-York Daily Tribune review of an exhibition at the Art House, New York. The Art House was established in 1891 by Thomas Benedict Clarke as a gallery space through which he promoted the work of Inness.

[2] Lent by Fuller to Paintings by American Artists; Annual Meeting, Union League Club, New York, 14-16 January 1892, no. 32.

[3] According to a letter of 28 December 1893 from Fuller to Clarke, Fuller returned the work because he found it to be out of character with the rest of his collection. Clarke lent the painting to the 63rd Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1893-1894.

[4] See Masters in Art: A Series of Illustrated Monographs 9 (June 1908): 253.

Associated Names

Clarke, Thomas Benedict
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Fuller, William H.
Smithers, Mabel Stevens

Exhibition History

1891: Art House, New York, September-October 1891.

1892: Paintings by American Artists; Annual Meeting, Union League Club, New York, 14-16 January 1892, no. 32.

1893: 63rd Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 18 December 1893-24 February 1894, no. 13.

1894: Oil Paintings Exclusively by American Artists, Second Annual Summer Exhibition, Art House "Annex," New York, June 1894, no. 55.

1898: Possibly Art Loan Exhibition, Heights Art Club, New York, March 1898, no. 2.

1914: Exhibition of Paintings by Deceased American Artists, Macbeth Gallery, New York, 1914, no. 7.

1956: American Painting: Second Quarter of the 20th Century, Jacksonville Art Museum, Florida, 1956, no. 5.

1957: Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts, Georgia, 1957.

1967: Art/American Exhibition, Bambergers, Newark, 1967.

1977: American Landscape Paintings of the 19th Century, U. S. Capitol, Committee on House Administration of the United States House of Representatives, Washington, 31 January-31 March 1977.

1980: George Inness in Florida, 1890-1894, and the South, 1884-1894, Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, 11 April-25 May 1980, no. 37, repro.

1980: La Pintura de Los Estados Unidos de Museos de la Ciudad de Washington, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, 1980-1981, no. 31, repro.

1986: A New World - American Landscape 1830-1900, Nationalmuseum, Stockholm; Gothenburg Art Museum, 1986-1987, no. 57.

2003: George Inness and the Visionary Landscape, National Academy of Design, New York; San Diego Museum of Art, 2003-2004, no. 27, repro.

2008: The American Evolution: A History through Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 1 March-27 July 2008, unpublished checklist.

2013: American Journeys: Visions of Place, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, 21 September 2013-28 September 2014, unpublished checklist.

Bibliography

2011: Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, 2011: 303, repro.