Location

not on view

Description

During the later 19th century, when European artists were influencing American landscapists, George Inness looked to France for stylistic inspiration. After a trip to Europe in 1853 and 1854, which brought him into contact with contemporary French painters, Inness adopted a looser way of handling paint. By the 1880s he was interested in conveying the spiritual aspects of nature.

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed lower right: G. Inness 1888

Provenance

1929-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio Gift of the Estate of Charles F. Brush

By 1913 -1929

Charles F. Brush [1849-1929], Cleveland, OH1 ¹

Provenance Footnotes

¹1The 1913 Cleveland Art Loan Exhibition at the Kinney & Levan Building contained this painting (no. 80A); the catalogue notes it was lent by Brush.

Citations

Cleveland art loan exposition. Illustrated Catalogue of the Cleveland Art Loan Exposition Under the Auspices of the Cleveland School, of Art; Kinney & Levan Building, November Twenty-Fifth to December Seventeenth, 1913. 1913.

Exhibition history

Cleveland, Kinney and Levan Building, Cleveland Art Loan Exposition (25 November-17 December 1913), cat. no. 80A as Landscape.

Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, An Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today at The Cleveland Museum of Art (23 June-4 October 1937), cat. no. 100 as Landscape, listed p. 28.

New York, National Academy of Design, The Art of George Inness: A Visionary Perspective ( 17 September-12 December 2003); traveled to San Diego, San Diego Museum of Art (24 January-18 April 2004); illus. front/back cover; illus. cat. no. 36.

Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-October 4, 1937).

35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).

George Inness and the Visionary Landscape. National Academy of Design Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York, NY (organizer) (September 17-December 28, 2003); San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (January 24-April 18, 2004).