Moonrise by George Inness
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Moonrise

George Inness · 1891

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist, Montclair, NJ, 1891 [this and the following according to Ireland 1965, 355 and Quick 2007, 334]; by descent to his estate, 1894; sold, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, Feb. 12–14, 1895, lot 30, to T.J. Briggs, New York. Emerson McMillin (1844–1922), New York, by Mar., 1902 [Lotos Club exh., 1902]; With M. Knoedler & Co., New York, Jan., 1911 [stock book, no. 12274]. With Henry Reinhardt Galleries, Chicago, Mar., 1911; sold to Edward B. Butler, Chicago, Mar. 11, 1911; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1911.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, American Fine Arts Society, <em>Exhibition of the Paintings Left by the Late George Inness</em>, Dec. 27, 1894, cat. 91.
  • New York, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, <em>Inness Executor’s Sale</em>, Feb. 12–14, 1895, cat. 30.
  • New York, Lotos Club, <em>Exhibition of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. Emerson McMillin</em>, Mar. 29–31, 1902, cat. 24.
  • Chicago, Henry Reinhardt Galleries, <em>An Exhibition of Eighteen Pictures by the American Master of Landscape Painting, the Late George Inness</em>, Mar. 1911, cat. 11.

Literature

Published references

  • American Fine Arts Society, <em>Exhibition of the Paintings Left by the Late George Inness</em>, exh. cat. (The Republic Press, 1894), 36, cat. 91.
  • “A Great American Painter: The Landscapes of the late George Innes,” <em>New York Daily Tribune</em>, Dec. 28, 1894, 7.
  • <em>Executor’s Sale: Catalogue of Paintings by the Late George Inness, N. A. </em>, sale cat. (Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, 1895), n.p., cat. 30.
  • Henry Reinhardt Galleries, <em>Exhibition of Paintings by George Inness</em>, exh. cat. (Henry Reinhardt Galleries, 1911), n.p., cat. 11 (ill.).
  • “The Inness Collection,” <em>Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago</em> 4, no. 4 (Apr., 1911): 53–55, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4119894"> https://www.jstor.org/stable/4119894</a>.
  • Elliott Daingerfield, “A Wonderful Collection of Innesses,” <em>Arts and Decoration</em> 1, no. 6 (Apr., 1911): 256, <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43799852"> https://www.jstor.org/stable/43799852</a>.
  • James William Pattison, “Gifts of Eighteen Pictures by George Inness to the Art Institute, Chicago,” <em>Fine Arts Journal</em> 24, no. 4 (Apr., 1911): 212–22 (ill.), <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/23906492"> https://www.jstor.org/stable/23906492</a>.
  • William M. R. French, <em>Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings, and Other Objects in the Museum</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1913), 151, cat. 587, <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t59c9q90w"> https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/t59c9q90w</a>.
  • William M. R. French, <em>Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), 160, cat. 587, <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.fl3r4m">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.fl3r4m</a>.
  • George William Eggers, <em>Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1917), 162, cat. 587.
  • George William Eggers, <em>Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture, Paintings, and Drawings: Part II: Paintings and Drawings</em>, vol. 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), 58, cat. 587, <a href=" https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015036764952"> https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015036764952</a>.
  • Robert B. Harshe, <em>Handbook of Sculpture, Architecture and Paintings: Part II: Paintings</em>, vol. 2 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1922), 63, cat. 587, <a href=" https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x006053578"> https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uva.x006053578</a>.

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