GEORGE INNESS (American 1825-1894). Landscape, 1857. Oil on canvas-faced academy board. 7-3/8 x 10-5/8 inches (18.7 x 27...

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GEORGE INNESS (American 1825-1894)
Landscape, 1857
Oil on canvas-faced academy board
7-3/8 x 10-5/8 inches (18.7 x 27 cm)
Signed at lower left: G. Inness 1857

Provenance:
M. Giblin;
Mrs. Louis Wilson (Washington, DC);
Mrs. Graham B. Peake, to 1952 (New York);
With Grand Central Art Galleries, 1952 (New York);
Private collection (Dallas, Texas)

The painting depicts a peaceful countryside filling with soft light from the right with beautifully colored clouds in the lower sky. The foreground is shaded by trees on the right. A stream with cows wading, flows out from the left of the canvas to the right and then curves back again to the left. The stream passes back through high banks to the left and center, decorated with mature trees and a house at center. The background depicts a rolling landscape and a sloping mountain. An exceptionally detailed example of the period, this Landscape is part of a group of three paintings that passed through the market in 1952. Each painting in the series depicts a different time of day. The other two paintings The Meadows and The Sunset are currently in the collection of the Worcester Art Museum. This particular painting will be included in the supplement to Michael Quick's, George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné (2006).

More information about GEORGE INNESS. See also: Inness, George, George Inness, Innes, George, Inness, George, Jr., Inness, Georges, Jr. Artist.



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