
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
Crossing the Ford
George Inness · 1848
Provenance
Ownership history
- Possibly American Art-Union, New York; possibly Henry E. Russell, Macon, GA, 1848 by distribution from the American Art-Union. Dr. John Kepke, Brooklyn, by c.1916; by descent to Edith K. MacDonald, Elk Grove, CA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1977.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Literature
Published references
- Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), p. 170, no. 36.
- Michael Quick, George Inness, a Catalogue Raisonne, vol. 2 (Rutgers University Press, 2007), no. 25, pl. 11.
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