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GEORGE INNESS

American, 1825-1894

"A June Afternoon" (Spring Landscape; June Afternoon, Montclair, New Jersey)

watercolor over graphite and ink on white paper
signed lower left "G. Inness"
13 1/4 x 19 3/4 in. (33.7 x 50.2 cm.) (sight), Frame: 22 x 28 1/2 x 2 in. (55.9 x 72.4 x 5.1 cm.)

  • Provenance: Mrs. Jonathan Scott Hartley (Helen Inness Hartley, daughter of the Artist), New York; American Art Galleries, American Art Association, March 24, 1927, lot 36; I.W. Drummond, 1927; Eva K. Harrington, Illinois; with Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York, 1968-1970; Weschler's Auction Gallery, Washington, D.C., December 3, 1970; Private Collection, Florida
  • Exhibited: Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Museum of Art, "Retrospective and Comparative Exhibition of Paintings by the Late George Innes and...the Late A.H. Wyant from the George H. Ainslie Collection, 1913; Rochester, New York, The Memorial Art Gallery, "Exhibition of Paintings by George Inness, N.A., Alexander H. Wyant, N.A., Aston Knight", 1914; St. Louis, Missouri, City Art Museum, "An Exhibition of Paintings by George Inness, N.A. and Alexander H. Wyant, N.A", 1914; New York, New York, Richard Dudensing & Son, "The Entire Works of George Inness, N.A., in Water Color and Important Paintings", 1917; Chicago, Illinois, The Art Institute of Chicago, "31st Annual Exhibition of Water-Colors, Pastels and Miniatures by American Artists", 1919; Montclair, New Jersey, Montclair Art Museum, "Exhibition of Water Colors, Sketches and Drawings by George Inness" [from the Collection of Mrs. J. Scott Hartley], 1921; Yonkers, New York, The Hudson River Museum, "19th Century American Paintings from Private Collections", 1974, cat. no. 19; New York, New York, Davis & Long Company, "George Inness Watercolors & Drawings", February 28 - March 25, 1978, cat. no. 7.
  • Literature: Leroy Ireland, "Works of George Inness", (Austin, Texas and London: University of Texas Press, 1965), no. 1008, p. 248; Kathleen Foster, "Makers of the American Watercolor Movement: 1860-1890", (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1982), p. 178; Michael Quick, "George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonne", (New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Rutgers University Press, 2007), cat. no. 134, p. 148.
  • Notes: Both Quick and Foster note that this work is a study for an oil painting, "Italian Tyrol" (Ireland, no. 173).
  • Condition: slight toning to the paper apparent; there is a tear in the lower center and other scattered creases along the edges, particularly along the lower right; there is an horizontal crease in the sky; there are a few other surface anomalies; not examined out of the frame

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