Details
GEORGE INNESS (1825-1894)
Picnic in the Woods, Montclair, New Jersey
signed and dated 'G Inness 1894' (lower center)
oil on canvas laid down on masonite
30 1⁄4 x 45 1⁄4 in. (76.2 x 115 cm.)
Painted in 1894.
Provenance
The artist.
Estate of the above.
Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, Executor's Sale of Paintings by the Late George Inness, N.A., 12-14 February 1895, lot 177, sold by the above.
W. Scott Thurber, Chicago, Illinois, acquired from the above.
Acquired by the present owner, 1899.
Literature
Montezuma, "My Notebook: The Inness Paintings," The Art Amateur, vol. 32, no. 3, February 1895, p. 78.
L. Ireland, The Works of George Inness: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné, Austin, Texas, 1965, p. 405, no. 1535.
M. Quick, George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 2, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 2007, pp. 434-35, no. 1141, illustrated.
Exhibited
New York, American Fine Arts Society, Exhibition of the Paintings Left by the Late George Inness, December 27, 1894, no. 23.
Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, 20th Annual Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture by American Artists, 1907, no. 192 (as Picnic in the Woods).
Chicago, Illinois and Kansas City, Missouri, Findlay Galleries, George Inness, N.A., 1936, no. 30.
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