Harvest Scene in the Delaware Valley

1867

George Inness

Associated Names
George Inness

Painter, American, 1825 - 1894

This painting depicts a vast countryside from an elevated point of view. At the bottom of the painting is a wide brown and green field that appears to be growing wheat or a similar crop. Small people appear to work the field, gathering the material into piles. Brown and white cows graze in a green area behind the field. A stand of tall, dark green trees sits in the middle of the painting, behind the field. In the distance there are rolling green hills with small white buildings scattered around them. Behind these hills lies a tall, light blue mountain. Most of the top half of the painting is taken up by a wide blue sky packed with gray and white clouds. A ray of light shines between the clouds and illuminates the field below.

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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 Number

    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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