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The Sunburst
Artist
George Inness
(American 1825–1894)
Date1893
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 32 x 42 1/8 in. (81.3 x 107 cm)
Credit LinePurchased with funds provided by the Hastings family
Object number2000.94
Collections
ClassificationsPainting
Object NamePainting
DepartmentPermanent Collection
CultureNorth American
NationalityAmerican
On View
On viewCentury
- Nineteenth
Signedbottom left: G. Inness 1893
Inscribedverso frame top left: 67; verso frame top left on sticker: J64
Exhibition HistoryInaugural Installation: 19th/20th Century American Galleries (111), Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA, June 1, 2024 - present; A Collection of Paintings by George Inness, Henry Reinhardt Galleries, New York, NY, 1917.ProvenanceGeorge Innes, Jr, Chetolah,' Cragsmoor via Ellenville, NY; John Levy Galleries, NY; Henry Reinhardt Galleries, NY; Albert R. Jones, Kansas City, MO; by descent in familyPublished ReferencesMichael Quick, George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonne (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2007), II: 419-20: reproduced in II: plate 240.
Leo G. Mazow, "George Inness, Softness, and the Vapor Barrier," in Marc Simpson, ed., Like Breath on Glass: Whistler, Inness, and the Art of Painting Softly (Williamstown, Mass.: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, dist'd. by Yale University Press, 2008), 52-71, reproduced on 57.
A Collection of Paintings by George Inness, Henry Reinhardt Galleries, New York, 1917, illustrated in catalog as plate 1.