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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.

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"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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Keywords and Quick Facts for George Inness


   Keywords 
Exhibition By An Art School
  • The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Art Method
  • Cartography, Mapmaking, Globes, Topography
  • Easel Painting
  • Moving Scenic Panorama Painting, 3-D Diorama
  • Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
  • Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Animals, Mammals
  • Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Landscape with Cattle, Sheep or Other Farm Animals
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
  • Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
  • Nocturnes, Nightime Scenes
  • Panoramic View and/or Large Scale Panoramic Artwork
  • Seascapes, Seasides
  • Skyscape, Clouds and/or Storms
  • Urban Landscape, Cityscape
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • Barbizon, France
  • California Before 1940
  • Catskill Mountains, New York
  • Colorado Before 1900
  • Europe
  • Florida Before 1900
  • Hudson River Valley, New York
  • Italy Before World War I
  • Minnesota, Upper Mississippi Before 1900
  • Missouri River Valley Before 1900
  • Monterey, Carmel California
  • Niagara Falls
  • Northern California Before 1900
  • Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
  • Venice, Italy
  • Virginia Before 1900
  • West Virginia Before 1920
  • White Mountains, New Hampshire
  • Yosemite National Park
Art Association
  • Boston Art Club
  • Brooklyn Art Association
  • National Academy of Design, Elected Member
Art Teacher
  • Marie Francois Regis Gignoux
Art School
  • Art Students League of New York, Student
Chronology
  • Early 19th Century Before Civil War
  • Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Art Collection
  • Anschutz Collection
  • Chicago Union League Club
  • Daniel J Terra Collection
  • Hainsworth Collection
  • Haussner Collection, Baltimore
  • John J. McDonough Collection
  • Pfeil Collection-Impressionists
  • Preston Morton Collection
  • Rita and Daniel Fraad Collection
  • The Marshall Collection
  • Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection
  • Warner Collection
Added Description
  • Landscape Specialty
  • Marine Before 1900
  • Self Taught, Autodidact
Artist Colony
  • Montclair Art Colony, New Jersey
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
  • Vose Galleries, Boston
Exhibition/Expo: Regional/National/International
  • Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1889
  • World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1892-1893
Exhibition of Art Association
  • Boston Art Club-
  • Brooklyn Art Association-
  • Lotos Club
  • National Academy of Design, New York
  • San Francisco Art Association
Exhibition of Museum
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
  • Paris Salons

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