George Inness (1825-1894)
PROPERTY FROM A CALIFORNIA COLLECTION
George Inness (1825-1894)

Sunset, Milking Time, Montclair, New Jersey

Details
George Inness (1825-1894)
Sunset, Milking Time, Montclair, New Jersey
signed and dated 'G. Inness 1889' (lower left)
oil on canvas
22 x 36¼ in. (55.9 x 92.1 cm.)
Provenance
The artist.
Estate of the above.
Sale: American Art Galleries, New York, 12-14 February 1895, no. 211.
W.H. Sheehy, 1895.
Mrs. Moses J. Wentworth.
Sale: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 20-21 February 1946, no. 148.
[With]Renaissance Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
[With]LeRoy Ireland, New York, by 1947.
Dr. T.E. Hanley, Bradford, Pennsylvania, 1950.
Mrs. Elizabeth Molnar, New York.
Sale: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 18 November 1965, no. 87.
[With]Terry DeLapp, Los Angeles, California.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1989.
Literature
L. Ireland, The Works of George Inness: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné, Austin, Texas, 1965, p. 327, no. 1295, illustrated.
Grand Central Art Galleries, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: Transformation in the Modern American Mode 1885-1945, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1988, p. 25, no. 94, illustrated.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, American Paintings in Southern California Collections from Gilbert Stuart to Georgia O'Keeffe, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles, California, 1996, p. 72, illustrated.
M. Quick, George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. two, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2007, pp. 242-43, no. 951, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, American Fine Arts Society, Exhibition of the Paintings Left by the Late George Inness, December 27, 1894, no. 52.
(Probably) Boston, Massachusetts, Vose Galleries, Summer Exhibition, 1948, no. 21.
New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: Transformation in the Modern American Mode 1885-1945, 1988, no. 94.
Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, American Paintings in Southern California Collections from Gilbert Stuart to Georgia O'Keeffe, 1996.

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