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George Inness

June 22 – September 7, 1986
West Building, Ground Floor, Central Gallery (3,000 sq. ft.)

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

This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery.

Overview: 43 paintings presented a retrospective of the work of the American artist. This was a modified version of the exhibition organized by Michael Quick, curator of American art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which included 63 works.

Organization: Nicolai Cikovsky Jr. was coordinator at the Gallery.

Attendance: 236,346

Catalog: George Inness, by Nicolai Cikovsky Jr. and Michael Quick. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1986.

Other Venues: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–June 9, 1985
Cleveland Museum of Art, August 7–October 6, 1985
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, November 4, 1985–January 12, 1986
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, February 10–May 11, 1986

Inness, George
American, 1825 - 1894