George Inness

American, 1825 - 1894

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American landscape painter (1825-1894)

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George Inness, Harvest Moon, 1891, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Mabel Stevens Smithers), 2014.136.73

Harvest Moon

George Inness · 1891 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.73

George Inness, Sunset in the Woods, 1891, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund), 2014.79.43

Sunset in the Woods

George Inness · 1891 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.79.43

George Inness, Hillside at Étretat, 1876, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund and William A. Clark Fund), 2014.136.79

Hillside at Étretat

George Inness · 1876 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.79

George Inness, Lake Albano, Sunset, c. 1874, oil on canvas, Gift of Alice Dodge in memory of her father, Henry Percival Dodge, 1962.2.1

Lake Albano, Sunset

George Inness · c. 1874 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1962.2.1

George Inness, View of the Tiber near Perugia, 1872-1874, oil on canvas, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1973.16.1

View of the Tiber near Perugia

George Inness · 1872-1874 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1973.16.1

George Inness, Harvest Scene in the Delaware Valley, 1867, oil on canvas, Gift of Ina and Jack Kay, 2002.154.1

Harvest Scene in the Delaware Valley

George Inness · 1867 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2002.154.1

We look across and down into a valley with a person sitting near a tall tree and a train puffing smoke beyond, all enclosed by a band of mountains in the distance in this horizontal landscape painting. Closest to us, several broken, jagged tree stumps are spaced across the painting’s width. A little distance away and to our left, the person wears a yellow, broad-brimmed hat, red vest, and gray pants. He reclines propped on his left elbow near a walking path beside a tall, slender tree with golden leaves. The green meadow stretching in front of him is dotted with tree stumps cut close to the ground. Beyond the meadow, puffs of white smoke trail behind a long steam locomotive that crosses a bridge spanning a tree-filled ravine, headed to our left. The ravine creates a diagonal line across the canvas, moving subtly away from us to our left. The train has climbed out of the valley, away from a cluster of brick-red buildings. The most prominent structure is a train roundhouse, a large building with a high, domed roof to the right of the tracks. Smoke rises from chimneys on long, warehouse-like buildings, and a steeple and smaller structures suggest a church and homes to our left. Hazy in the distance, a row of mountains lines the horizon, which comes about halfway up the composition. The sky above deepens from pale, shell pink over the mountains to watery, pale blue above. The artist signed the work in tiny letters in the lower left corner: “G. Inness.”
George Inness, The Lackawanna Valley, c. 1856, oil on canvas, Gift of Mrs. Huttleston Rogers, 1945.4.1

The Lackawanna Valley

George Inness · c. 1856 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1945.4.1

George Inness, Landscape, c. 1852, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran), 2014.136.109

Landscape

George Inness · c. 1852 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.109

Bibliography

1917

  • Inness, George, Jr. Life, Art, and Letters of George Inness. New York, 1917.

1971

  • Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr. George Inness. New York, 1971.

1977

  • Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr., and Michael Quick. George Inness. Los Angeles, 1977.

1993

  • Cikovsky, Nicolai, Jr. George Inness. New York, 1993.

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: 349-350.