George Inness
American, 1825–1894
Home at Montclair
1892
Inness's property in Montclair, New Jersey, was the subject of many of his late works. In this winter scene, he captured the stillness of twilight in layers of thinly applied paint, evoking an atmosphere rather than recording topographical details. The artist’s son wrote of the painting: “There is nothing startling in this great work of art, and yet you are filled with a sense of bigness, grandeur, and the very conviction of truth and nature.”
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 30 1/8 x 45 in. (76.5 x 114.3 cm) Frame: 37 × 53 × 4 in. (94 × 134.6 × 10.2 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.10 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | On View |
Image Caption
George Inness, Home at Montclair, 1892, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.10
Select Bibliography
Quick, Michael. George Inness : A Catalogue Raisonné. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press. 2007.
Ireland, LeRoy. The Works of George Inness. Austin: University of Texas Press. 1965.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Four: First Two Rooms. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco.. The Color of Mood: American Tonalism, 1880-1910. Jan. 15-April 25, 1972.. 1972..
Stebbins, Theodore E., Carol Troyen, and Trevor J. Fairbrother. A New World: Masterpieces of American Painting. Exhibition catalogue. Boston: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1983.
Williams College Museum of Art. American Art from the Permanent Collection. March 8-June 17, 1985.
Inness Jr., George. Life, Art and Letters of George Inness. New York: The Century Co. 1917.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Four & Exhibit Seven, Supplement: West Gallery. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1959.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972.
Werner, Alfred. Inness Landscapes. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications. 1973.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984.
Quick, Michael and Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr. George Inness. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 1985.
Jolly, Robert M. "George Inness's Swedenborgian Dimension". vol. 11. Southeastern College Art Conference Review. Spring 1986..
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Cikovski Jr., Nicolai. George Inness. New York: Harry N. Abrams in association with The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. 1993.
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Johns, Elizabeth. "Cities, Excursions into Nature, and Late-Century Landscapes" in Jackson Lears, ed., American Victorians and Virgin Nature. Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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Lears, T. J. Jackson, ed. American Victorians and Virgin Nature. Fenway Court 29. Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2002.
Bell, Adrienne Baxter. George Inness and the Visionary Landscape. National Academy of Desgin in association with New York: George Braziller, Publishers. 2003.
De Lue, Rachael Ziady. George Inness and the Science of Landscape. The Univeristy of Chicago Press. 2004.
Mowery, Elizabeth. Landscape Meditations: An Artist's Guide to Exploring Themes in Landscape Painting. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2005.
Colbert, Charles. Haunted Visions: Spiritualism and American Art. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Provenance
James W. Ellsworth, Chicago; to Mrs. Bernon S. Prentice (née Ellsworth), by descent; to (Parke-Bernet, New York, sale of the Prentice collection, April 19, 1952, no. 659); to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1952); to Robert Sterling Clark, January 14, 1955.
