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Order Oil Paintingreproduction. George Inness was an influential American landscape painter. His work was influenced, in turn, by that of the old masters, the Hudson River school, the Barbizon school, and, finally, by the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg, whose spiritualism found vivid expression in the work of Inness' maturity. Often called "the ...
- Niagara
‘Niagara’ was created in 1889 by George Inness in Tonalism...
- Deutsch
George Inness (* 1. Mai 1825 in Newburgh, Orange County, New...
- Lake Albano (Italy)
‘Lake Albano (Italy)’ was created in 1869 by George Inness...
- The Lackawanna Valley
‘The Lackawanna Valley’ was created in 1855 by George Inness...
- Albano, Italy (The Roman Campagna)
‘Albano, Italy (The Roman Campagna)’ was created in 1874 by...
- End of Day, 1855
Inness's paintings remain, in many areas, enigmatically...
- Niagara
Lake Albano, 1869, Phillips Collection George Inness, after 1875, albumen print (cabinet card) by Napoleon Sarony, Department of Image Collections, National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC. Inness moved from New York City to Medfield, Massachusetts in 1860, where he converted a barn into a studio. In 1862–63, he was an art teacher to ...
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As one of Inness’ largest pre-1870 paintings, Peace and Plenty alludes to the cyclical view of history evoked in Genesis, of alternating feast and famine; this perspective was popular during the mid-nineteenth century and calls to mind such well-known and similarly dramatic works as Thomas Cole’s five-part series The Course of Empire (1833 ...
Artist Biography. George Inness was born in New York City and grew up on a farm in Newark, New Jersey. His minimal art training consisted of time spent with an itinerant artist, John Jesse Barker (who had studied with Thomas Sully), and a year's apprenticeship to a map engraver. In 1844 he began exhibiting in New York, and later spent a month ...
- May 1, 1825
- August 3, 1894
The Valley of the Olives (1867) by George Inness (American, 1825-1894) The Walters Art Museum. '"The Valley of the Olives," is the largest surviving fragment of Inness' monumental painting "The New Jerusalem."'. Lake Albano (1869) by George Inness The Phillips Collection. 'Curiously, Lake Albano is dated 1869, the year before Inness returned to ...
George Inness, who began his career painting in the Hudson River School mode, embraced a variety of styles throughout his long career. Exposure to the work of French Barbizon artists as well as to the pantheistic philosophy of Swedish scientist and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg led him to develop a more personal approach to painting.
As opposed to exotic subject matter and technical accuracy, Inness offered an image of suburban farmland imbued with feeling, which he communicated through enriched pigment and softened brushstrokes. The title, the depiction of a bountiful harvest, and statements by the artist associated with this and other pictures made during the war suggest ...