The Old Mill by George Inness
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The Old Mill

George Inness · 1849

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. American Art Union, New York; James P. Kelly, New York, 1849, by distribution from the American Art-Union; (Sale, John Fell O'Brien, Auctioneer, at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, January 13-14, 1902, no. 108); William Owen and Erna Sawyer Goodman, by 1939; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1939.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, American Art Union, Jun–Dec. 1849, cat. 128.
  • New York, John Fell O’Brien Art Gallery, Jan. 13–14, 1902, cat. 108.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, The Hudson River School and Early American Landscape Tradition, Feb. 15–Mar. 15, 1945, cat. 123; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Apr. 17–May 18, 1945.
  • Springfield, Mass., George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, George Inness, An American Landscape Painter, 1825–1894, Feb. 25–Mar. 24, 1946; Brooklyn Museum, Apr. 5–May 12, 1946, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, May 19–June 23, 1946, cat. 3.
  • Decatur Art Center, Ill., Masterpieces of The Old and New World, Apr. 11–May 9, 1948, cat. 23.
  • Austin, University Art Museum, University of Texas, The Paintings of George Inness (1844–1894), Dec. 12, 1965–Jan. 30, 1966, cat. 6.
  • Salt Lake City, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, American Painting Around 1850, Jan. 11–Feb. 22, 1976, cat. 14.

Literature

Published references

  • Bulletin of American Art Union 2, 3 (June 1849), 46.
  • Bulletin of American Art Union 2, 6 (Sept. 1849), 42.
  • Bulletin of American Art Union 2, 7 (Oct. 1849), 36.
  • Bulletin of American Art Union 2, 8 (Nov. 1849), 88.
  • Bulletin of American Art Union 2, 9 (Dec. 1849), 35.
  • Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago: Report for the Year 1939 34, 3 (1940).
  • Virgil Barker, American Painting: History and Interpretation (Macmillan, 1950), no. 63.
  • Jacob G. Smith, “George Inness and the American Landscape Painter,” American Artist 20, 4 (Apr. 1956), 30 (ill.), 71–73.
  • Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 221.
  • LeRoy Ireland, The Works of George Inness, An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonnè (University of Texas Press, 1965), no. 57.
  • Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., George Inness (Praeger Publishers, 1971), no. 5.
  • Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., The Life and Work of George Inness (Garland, 1977), no. 10.

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