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George Inness · 1893
Provenance
Ownership history
- Estate of the artist (sale, Fifth Avenue Galleries, New York, February 12-14, 1895, no. 69, as "The Sun's Last Reflection"); E.W. Bass, 1895; Emerson McMillin, New York, to 1911; Knoedler & Co., New York, 1911; Reinhardt Galleries, Chicago, 1911; sold to Edward B. Butler, Chicago, 1911; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1911.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, American Fine Arts Society, Exhibition of the Paintings Left by the Late George Inness, Dec. 27, 1894, no. 34.
- New York, Lotos Club, Exposition of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. Emerson McMillin, Mar. 29–31, 1902, no. 13.
- Chicago, Henry Reinhardt Galleries, An Exhibition of Eighteen Pictures by the American Master of Landscape Painting, the late George Inness, N.A., 1911, no. 3.
- Austin, Texas, University Art Museum, University of Texas, The Paintings of George Inness (1844–1894), 1965–1966, no. 122, ill.
- Springfield, Illinois State Museum, Nineteenth–Century American Paintings: a Collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 5–Apr. 24, 1966; Iowa, Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, May 19–June 5, 1966; Muscatine, Iowa, Laura Musser Art Gallery and Museum, July 24–Oct. 2, 1966; Peoria, Illinois, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Nov. 30, 1966–Jan. 8, 1967.
- Champaign, Illinois, Krannert Art Museum, 250 Years of American Art, Art Resources Traveler exhibition, May 1968–July 1969, cat. np.
- Spokane, Washington, International Exposition Our Land, Our Sky, Our Water: An Exhibition of Amerian and Canadian Art, 1974, no. 20.
- New York, Museum of Modern Art, <em>The Natural Paradise: Painting in America, 1800–1950</em>, Sept. 29–Nov. 30, 1976, cat.
- Oakland Museum Art Department, George Inness Landscapes: His Signature Years, 1884–1894, 1978–79.
- Jacksonville, Fla., Cummer Gallery of Art, George Inness in Florida, 1890–1894, and the South, 1884–1894, Apr. 11–May 25, 1980, no. 21.
- New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, George Inness, Apr. 1–June 9, 1985, Nicolai Chikovsky and Michael Quick, cat. no. 59, p. 195, ill. ; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Nov. 10, 1985–Jan. 12, 1986; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Feb. 20–May 11, 1986. (Picture did not go to the final condensed exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington, June 22–Sept. 7, 1986, no. 59.
- National Academy of Design, New York, The Art of George Inness: A Visionary Perspective, Sept. 17–Dec. 28, 2003, San Diego Museum of Art, Jan. 24–Apr. 18, 2004, no. 36.
Literature
Published references
- Bland Simpson, “Canalbank Life,” Virginia Calvalcade (Spring 1990), 172–181, ill. p. 177.
- 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).
- Michael Quick, George Inness, a Catalogue Raisonne, vol. 2 (Rutgers University Press, 2007), no. 1097, pl. 238, as The Sun's Last Reflection.
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