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George Inness

George Inness (1825 - 1894) was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts / Scotland.  George Inness is known for Landscape and some marine-coastal painting.

"George Inness and the Visionary Landscape" at the National Academy of Design

Submitted By RAYMOND J. STEINER and written for ART TIMES October 2003

AS WITH ANY artist worthy of the title, George Inness (18251894) is not easily summed up. Often associated with the Hudson River School, he was, in fact, aesthetically in opposition to the large, detailed canvases which characterized the work of such painters as Thomas Cole (1801-1848) and Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), two major representative painters of that group.  Others see him as a transplanted member of the French Barbizon School, more in tune with their less grandiose, more intimate landscapes of homely, domesticated scenes of rural France. Still others as the title of this exhibition* indicates see him as a visionary theorist, painting dreamy landscapes fraught with symbolic messages and meanings.  And, like any artist, these and many other attempts at pigeonholing might well fit p   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 37669 characters.]  Artist bio

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