Harvest Scene in the Delaware Valley

1867

George Inness

Painter, American, 1825 - 1894

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ina and Jack Kay

  • Dimensions

    overall: 76 × 115 cm (29 15/16 × 45 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.154.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

T.B. Walker, Minneapolis, by 1925; T.B. Walker Foundation, Minneapolis; gift 1976 to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 24 May 1989, no. 36);[1] Mr. and Mrs. Jack Kay, Chevy Chase, Maryland; gift (partial and promised) 2002 to NGA.
[1] The painting was sold by the Walker Art Center to establish a purchase fund for contemporary art in the name of the donor, the T.B. Walker Foundation.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1946

  • George Inness: An American Landscape Painter, 1825-1894, George Walter Vincent Smith Art Gallery, Springfield, Massachusetts; Brooklyn Museum; Montclair Art Museum, 1946, no. 19, repro.

1961

  • American Landscape Painters, 1800-1960, Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1961, repro.

1962

  • A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by George Inness, The Paine Art Center, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 1962, no. 13, repro.

1966

  • American Landscape: A Changing Frontier, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C., 1966, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1901

  • Brush and Pencil IX, no. 2 (November 1901): 75, repro.

1906

  • Brush and Pencil XVIII, no. 4 (October 1906): 146, repro.

1927

  • The Walker Art Galleries Catalogue. Minneapolis, 1927: 85.

1936

  • Index of Twentieth Century Artists IV, no. 3 (December 1936): 354, 361.

1965

  • Cikovsky, Jr., Nicolai. "The Life and Work of George Inness." Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1965: fig. 50.

  • Ireland, Leroy. The Works of George Inness: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné. Austin and London, 1965: no. 387, repro. 97.

1971

  • Cikovsky, Jr., Nicolai. George Inness. New York, Washington, D.C., and London, 1971: fig. 34.

1978

  • The Romantic Vision: 19th Century American Landscape Painting in the Walker Art Center Permanent Collection. Minneapolis, 1978: 18-19, 32, fig. 14.

Inscriptions

lower left: G. Inness 1867

Wikidata ID

Q20188697

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