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GEORGE INNESS

American, 1825-1894

"Near Castello", 1870-1872

watercolor over graphite on paper
signed lower right "G. Inness"
10 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. (26 x 19.7 cm.) (sight), Frame: 19 3/4 x 16 1/4 x 1 in. (50.2 x 41.3 x 2.5 cm.)

  • Provenance: Mrs. Jonathan Scott Hartley (daughter of the Artist); American Art Galleries, American Art Association, New York, March 24, 1927, lot 13; Mrs. E. Martin, Chicago, Illinois; Hanzel Galleries, Chicago, Illinois, February 21, 1965; Mr. and Mrs. S. Morton Vose II, Boston, Massachusetts; Thomas Colville, New Haven, Connecticut, 1988; Private Collection, Connecticut
  • Exhibited: Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Museum of Art, "Retrospective and Comparative Exhibition of Paintings by the Late George Inness and...the Late A.H. Wyant from the George H. Ainslie Collection, no. 81, 1913; Rochester, New York, The Memorial Art Gallery, "Exhibition of Paintings by George Inness...", no. 64, 1914; St. Louis, Missouri, City Art Museum, "An Exhibition of Paintings by George Inness N.A. and Alexander H. Wyant, N.A., no. 66, 1914; New York, New York, Richard Dudensing & Son, "The Entire Works of George Inness in Watercolor and Important Paintings", no. 37, 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 Watercolors, Sketches, and Drawings by George Inness", no. 38, 1921; Lincoln, Massachusetts, DeCordova Museum and Park, "Homer to Hopper: 60 Years of American Watercolors, 1976-1977"; New York, New York, Davis & Long Company, "George Inness Watercolors & Drawings", cat. no. 12, February 28 - March 25, 1978; Old Lyme, Connecticut, Old Lyme Historical Society at the Florence Griswold Museum, "Native Inspirations: American Art from Members' Collections", December 8, 1989 - February 25, 1990.
  • Literature: Leroy Ireland, "Works of George Inness", (Austin, Texas and London: University of Texas Press, 1965), no. 545, pp. 131-132; Kathleen Foster, "Makers of the American Watercolor Movement: 1860-1890", (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1982), p. 180; Michael Quick, "George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonne", (New Brunswick, New Jersey and London: Rutgers University Press, 2007), cat. no. 409, pp. 389-390.
  • Condition: in very good overall condition; some minor surface anomalies; no apparent restoration; not examined out of the frame; additional photos available upon request

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