National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: View of the Tiber near Perugia
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  • Provenance
  • Exhibition History
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Inscription

lower right: G. Inness 1874; lower center, partially painted over: [Geo I]nness Rome 187[2?]

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Provenance

Darius Ogden Mills [1825-1910], Millbrae, California, c. 1874 or 1875;[1] his children, Ogden Mills [1856-1929] and Elizabeth Mills [Mrs. Whitelaw Reid], Millbrae, California, c. 1910-1943; Mills Estate, 1943-1947; the daughter of Ogden Mills, Gladys Mills Phipps [Mrs. Henry C. Phipps, 1883-1970]; her son, Ogden Phipps [b. 1908], New York; consigned November 1955 to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); sold May 1956 to Huntington Hartford, New York; sold to (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York); purchased 1 June 1973 by NGA.

[1] Darius Ogden Mills was a prominent financier and philanthropist. After resigning the presidency of the Bank of California in 1873, Mills made a two-year trip to Europe, and it was probably in Italy or in Paris that he purchased the painting from Inness.

Exhibition History

1985
George Inness, 5 venues, shown only at National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985, not in catalogue (other venues: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art).
2011
George Inness in Italy, Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, 2011-2012, not in catalogue.
2011
George Inness in Italy, Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, 2011 - 2012, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1964
Paintings from the Huntington Hartford Collection in the Gallery of Modern Art. New York, 1964: no. 15, repro.
1965
Ireland, LeRoy. The Works of George Inness: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné. Austin, 1965: 166-167, repro. 167.
1974
"La Chronique des Arts." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 83 (February 1974): 139, repro. 138.
1975
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 551, no. 836, color repro.
1980
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 181, repro.
1981
Williams 1981, color detail 4-5, 125, repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 547, no. 827, color repro.
1992
American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 210, repro.
1996
Kelly, Franklin, with Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., Deborah Chotner, and John Davis. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part I. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 357-360, color repro.

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