
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain
The Mill Pond
George Inness · 1889
Provenance
Ownership history
- Thomas B. Clarke (sale, American Art Association, New York, February 14-18, 1899); Emerson McMillin, New York, from 1899 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, Athletic Club, Third Annual Art Loan Exhibition, Feb. 2, 1889, no. 27.
- New York, Union League Club, Catalogue of a Loan Collection of American Landscapes with Greek Terra–Cotta Figures and Vases, Jan. 9–11, 1890, no. 3.
- Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Catalogue of the Thomas B. Clarke Collection, Oct. 15–Nov. 28, 1891, no. 108.
- National Academy of Design, New York Columbian Celebration of the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the Discovery of America, Oct. 1892, no. 62.
- New York, Union League Club, A Group of Paintings by American Artists Accepted for the Columbian Exposition 1893, Mar. 9–11, 1893, no. 15.
- Chicago, World's Columbian Exposition, May 1–Oct. 31, 1893, no. 606.
- New York, Union League Club, The Paintings of Two Americans, Mar. 10–12, 1898, no. 24.
- Paris, Exposition Universelle, Catalogue illustre officiel de l'Exposition decennale des beaux–arts, 1889 a 1900, Apr. 15–Nov. 5, 1900, no. 166.
- New York, Lotos Club, Exposition of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. Emerson McMillin, Mar. 29–31, 1902, no. 11.
- Chicago, Henry Reinhardt Galleries, An Exhibition of Eighteen Pictures by the American Master of Landscape Painting, the late George Inness, N.A., 1911, no. 2.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
- Des Moines Art Center, The Painting of Light, 1960, no. 17.
Literature
Published references
- Carolyn Kinder Carr, et al., "Revisiting the White City: American Art at the 1893 World's Fair" (University Press of New England, 1993), p. 268 (ill.).
- 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. 28, no. 25.
- Michael Quick, George Inness, a Catalogue Raisonne, vol. 2 (Rutgers University Press, 2007), no. 948, pl. 196.
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