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Works by George Inness 
 
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INTRODUCTION 
 
 HE present collection, which is the property of Mrs. J. Scott Hartley, 
 
 daughter of the late George Inness, comprises the last assemblage of paint- 
 
 ings by Inness in the possession of his family. It is remarkable for an 
 extremely important group of forty water-colors, which are in the highest sense of 
 the word finished pictures, signed by the master; and which have never been outside 
 Inness’ family or, indeed, on public exhibition anywhere except in his own town of 
 Montclair. ‘These are largely studies of Milton and Montclair landscapes and 
 paintings of the Roman Campagna and the Tyrolese Alps made by Inness in the 
 70’s during his many sojourns in Italy. 
 
 Many of the more important paintings were given directly by George Inness 
 to his daughter; thus, The Coming Storm was a wedding present from him 
 on the occasion of her marriage with the well-known sculptor, J. S. Hartley. Others 
 were inherited by her from her mother. Here again the public is privileged to view 
 for the first time a group of important oil paintings which, with few exceptions, 
 have never previously been on exhibition. 
 
 Several of the Inness landscapes were painted by him at Milton-on-the-Hudson 
 on the farm of the hospitable Quakeress, Mrs. Asia Hallock, at whose house the 
 family passed many delightful summers; of this period are the intimate paintings, 
 See-Saw [No. 61], Apple Trees [No. 65], On the Farm [No. 72] and The 
 Orchard |No. 75]. The most interesting of the Italian pictures is the brilliant 
 Washing Day Near Perugia [No. 70], painted with swiftness and of extreme 
 purity of color. Niagara [No. 71] is one of the si aller studies made by him for 
 the well-known large canvass commissioned by Mr. Roswell-Smith, afterwards 
 father-in-law of George Inness, Jr.; while of greater family interest is the early 
 First Roundhouse of the D. L. S& W. R. R. at Scranton, concerning which an 
 amusing anecdote is told in the catalogue and which embodies one of Inness’ favo- 
 rite stories. 
 
 It will perhaps not be out of place here to recall briefly the career of the 
 greatest American landscape painter. George Inness was born in Newburgh, N. Y., 
 in 1825, his parents moving afterward first to New York City and then to Newark, 
 N. J. An early disposition towards art was encouraged by elementary instruction, 
 only to be interrupted by ill health; but in 1846 he was enabled to spend a few 
 months of study under Regis Gignoux, a French painter with a studio in New 
 York. Following this commenced a long self-apprenticeship, which the artist spent 
 in almost passionate study of nature. In 1853 he was elected A.N.A. and full 
 member in 1868; from 1871 to 1875 he was in Italy, by which time he had 
 
acquired a European reputation, chiefly under the aegis of Benjamin Constant. 
 After a full and vigorous life he died in August, 1894, suddenly, at the Bridge of 
 Allan in Scotland, at the age of sixty-nine years. 
 
 Inness is represented fully in the Metropolitan Museum of New York and 
 throughout the museums and private galleries of the country; the most important 
 assemblage of his works in America being the remarkable Butler Collection of the 
 Chicago Art Institute, to which an entire gallery is devoted, in fitting homage to 
 
 the man who was acclaimed in his day as the foremost painter of his time. 
 
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 Catalogue Numbers 1 to 79 Inclusive 
 
 NEW MEDFORD 
 
 A dark figure is lying on the sand at the foot of a hill, which slopes down to 
 the edge of the water; at the right the pale surface merging imperceptibly 
 into the blue of the sky. Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. 
 
 Water-color: Height, 4 inches; length, 6% inches 
 
 Oy rIGi tr SKY 
 
 An acute study of a mood of the sea, pale blue water rolling in crested 
 waves towards the darker foreground, the white sky suffused with pinkish 
 cloud. Signed at lower right, G. INNEss. 
 
 Water-color: Height, 4% inches; length, 9% inches 
 
 IMPRESSION OF VENICE 
 
 A rapidly thrown together color synthesis, with blue sky and water surround- 
 ing the island on which are perched the buildings and campanile of the 
 S. Giorgio Maggiore. Signed at lower right, G. INNEss. 
 
 Water-color:. Height, 5 inches; length, 9 inches 
 
 THE LAGOON, VENICE 
 
 Misty water and sky with the uncertain line of the shore of the city in the 
 middle distance, topped by a campanile. In the right foreground, fishing 
 boats with brown lateen sails, hard by mooring posts. Signed at lower left, 
 
 G. INNEss. 
 Water-color: Height, 5% inches; length, 10 inches 
 
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 ACROSS THE CAMPAGNA 
 
 A wide vista of green meadow with a band of woodland in the right middle 
 distance terminating on the flank of a village with red houses. Blue summer 
 sky with white cirrus on the horizon. Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. 
 
 Water-color: Height, 634 inches; length, 10 inches 
 
 ITALIAN DOORWAY 
 
 ‘The view is from the steps of a white stucco mansion in the immediate right 
 foreground; before the eye of the spectator is a prospect of broad valley with 
 woodland below, and, in the distance, hills in the sunshine under the palest 
 of skies. Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. 
 
 Water-color: Height, 8Y%4 inches; width, 634 inches 
 
 NEARS CARPORI 
 
 Peasants are seated on the grass in the right foreground, on the edge of an 
 abrupt dip from which emerge the tops of two tall cypresses. Beyond them 
 is a rolling wooded valley with the white walls of a village and a convent 
 perched on a rise at the right. Brilliant blue sky. Signed at lower right, 
 G. INNEss. 
 
 Water-color: Height, 7% inches; length, 10% inches 
 
 MILTON-ON-THE-HUDSON 
 
 Three trees in the left foreground border the summit of a ridge; below is a 
 broad wooded plain with houses, glowing almost white in the brilliance of 
 the sunlight. Signed at lower left, G. IyNEss. 
 
 Water-color: Height, 734 inches; length, 103% inches 
 
 JUNE 
 
 The bright sunshine illuminates the rolling green country and a copse of tall 
 trees in full summer foliage; in a path in the right foreground are two 
 figures. In the distance a lake is suggested under the shelter of a hazy 
 far mountain. Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. 
 
 Water-color: Height, 634 inches; length, 12% inches 
 
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 fom OLIVE TREES AT TIVOLI 
 
 The windswept summit of a hill in the foreground, the spring foliage of the 
 olive trees blown into wild shapes. Over the edge, the view drops sharply 
 to the arable plain below with a white thread of road serpentining across 
 the green fields. Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. 
 
 Water-color: Height, 634 inches; length, 1134 inches 
 
 Illustrated in the Life, Art and Letters of George Inness, by George 
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 1 NEARS ELVOUEL 
 
 A cluster of pines and other trees with cushiony tops of leafage extending 
 from the left foreground into the middle distance over the grass; beyond 
 them the open plain lies in the sunshine. Signed at lower right, G. INNEss. 
 
 Water-color and pencil drawing: Height, 834 inches; length, 1034 inches 
 
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 PaeoOUNTRY ROAD, ITALIAN TYROL 
 ‘Two peasant women are making their way along a country road, curving 
 between meadows at left and right. In the left middle distance, a straggling 
 group of farm buildings and the white walls of the end of a village, under 
 the shelter of jagged blue mountains towering into clouds. Signed at lower 
 
 left, G. INNEss. 
 Water-color: Height, 77% inches; length, 117% inches 
 
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 NEAR CASTELLO 
 
 A hill-path breaks through between groups of tall dark cypresses. “Uhrough 
 
 the gap is a glimpse of the white walls of a village, woods and far moun- 
 
 tains over the valley below. Signed at lower right, G. INNEss. 
 Water-color: Height, 10 inches; width, 734 inches 
 
 NEAR DURHAM, CONN. 
 
 A buttress of green foliage flanks on either side the open grass in the fore- 
 ground, where stand two dark figures; in the middle distance a placid sheet 
 of water with rising ground topped by a forest on the farther side. Signed 
 at lower left, Geo. INNEss. 
 
 Water-color: Height, 7% inches; length, 105% inches 
 
 THE OLIVE*ORCHARD 
 
 A man is seated on the grass in the sunlight in an open clearing surrounded 
 by olive trees; behind are tall cypresses and a view of forest and lake with 
 a village at the lakeside and green hills beyond. Signed at lower left, 
 
 G. INNEss. 
 Water-color: Height, 7% inches; length, 10 inches 
 
 BARBERINI, ITALY 
 
 Rolling grassland with tall coniferous trees at the right and in the middle 
 distance; beyond them rise tall mountains with scattered sparse vegetation 
 and a village at the left; in the right foreground, a peasant woman in white 
 blouse and pink skirt, descending towards two figures by the stream in the 
 valley. Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. 
 
 Water-color: Height, 67% inches; length, 11% inches 
 
 THE DOLOMITES 
 
 The side of a hill drops abruptly across the immediate foreground, green 
 and covered with dark cypress trees. On the other side of the inteivening 
 gap is a rugged array of mountains with jagged summits strewn with patches 
 of snow, or pink in the sunshine. Signed at lower left, GEo. INNEss. 
 Water-color: Height, 834 inches; length, 11% inches 
 
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 18. NEAR PERUGIA 
 
 Looking down the grassy hillside, the observer sees successively the fringe 
 of an olive orchard, a cluster of tall elms and a rolling valley with scattered 
 white houses and far hills. Signed at lower right, G. INNEss. 
 
 Water-color: Height, 115% inches; width, 934 inches 
 
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 19. DHE VCALEAN HIVES 
 
 A man stands on the grassy mound of the left foreground; at left and right 
 are trees, behind the former the squat shape of an old round tower. Below 
 
 is the intense blue of a river, a village among the hills beyond and a vista 
 of the plain. Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. 
 
 Water-color: Height, 7% inches; length, 11 inches 
 
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 Soe DALIAN LYROL 
 
 Grassy hillside rising at left and right, with cypresses and coniferous trees 
 scattered about. In the distance a chain of rugged mountatin peaks, gray 
 before the billows of cumulus cloud. Signed at lower right, G. Inness. 
 
 Water-color: Height, 73% inches; length, 12 inches 
 
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 AN UPLAND VILLAGE IN THE ITALIAN TYROG 
 
 Italian mountain landscape, the valley girt by swelling grassland with the 
 white houses and church of a village clustered at the foot of a huge mountain 
 washed by the sunshine. Going up the foreground road are figures of 
 peasants. Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. 
 
 Water-color: Height, 838 inches; length, 1134 inches 
 
 ‘TYROLEAN “ALPS 
 
 A deep grassy valley rising steeply to mountains on either side; in the fore- 
 ground a line of coniferous trees. Perched on the hill at the left is a mansion. 
 Signed at lower left, Gro. INNEss. 
 
 Water-color: Height, 8% inches; length, 11% inches 
 
 NIAGARA 
 
 In the right foreground the white foaming stream dropping to the broad 
 smooth ultramarine of the lake below; behind it, brown hill with scattered 
 vegetation and the white sheet of a cascade in the central middleground. 
 Signed at lower right, G. INNEss. 
 
 Water-color: Height, 10% inches; length, 1434 inches 
 
 EARLY SPRING, MONTCLAIR 
 
 A sluggish river with a grassy sand bank rising to a green knoll at the mght, 
 
 crowned by a copse. In the distance, a mass of woodland. Scaled in 
 
 squares for transference to canvas. Signed at lower right, G. INNEss. 
 Water-color: Height, 934 inches; length, 13% inches 
 
 ALBANOs TALLY 
 
 On a grassy mound in the right foreground, a group of tall poplar saplings 
 dominating the scene; behind them a hillside piled high with woods, in 
 which nestle white-walled houses. In the left middle distance, beyond the 
 fields, the village with its ancient fortified gate of brick. Signed at lower 
 
 right, G. INNEss. 
 Weater-color: Height, 12% inches; width, 9% inches 
 
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 In the right foreground, barges and a two-masted sailing vessel moored by 
 the Dogana with its white tower; on the waters of the lagoon, gondolas 
 
 and small steamboats are plying. Across the water is the first of the islands 
 with the dome and campanile of S. Giorgio Maggiore. 
 
 Signed at lower 
 right, G. Inness, and dated Venice, 1872. 
 
 Water-color and pencil drawing: Height, 10 inches; length, 133% inches 
 
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 27. STONE PINES 
 
 A meadow with figures in the left foreground before a group of tall pines 
 topped with flat cushions of foliage; at the right, a wooded rise. “The figures 
 and leafage washed in a monochrome of sepia against the sky and grass. 
 Signed at lower right, G. INNEss. 
 
 Sepia water-color: Height, 1034 inches; length, 155% inches 
 
 Illustrated in Life, Art, and Letters of George Inness, by George Inness, Jr., 
 1917, facing page -30. 
 
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 Po eOLDPAPPLE TREES 
 A typical Inness landscape of the finest quality. Lying in the grass is an 
 old gnarled tree-trunk, struck with a small patch of high light; at the left, 
 two saplings. On the farther edge of the meadow a clump of pollard apple 
 trees, with an enormous spreading mass of foliage beautifully and delicately 
 defined against the pale blue and white of the heavens. Signed at lower 
 
 right, G. INNEss. 
 
 Water-color: Height, 934 inches; length, 124% inches 
 
 Illustrated in the Life, Art, and Letters of George Inness, by SES Inness, 
 Jr., 1917, facing page 98. 
 
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 THE OLD ROMAN ROAD 
 
 At the left, the road leading between high grass banks and tall trees to an 
 old round-arched gate; a town with its clustered houses straggles across the 
 middle distance and is dominated by the square white belfry of the church 
 pointing into the sky. Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. 
 
 Water-color: Height, 9 inches; length, 14 inches 
 
 MOUNTAIN ROAD 
 
 A peasant mounted on a horse, driving cows before him, is making his way 
 down a country road away from the observer. At the left rises a grassy 
 ridge partly stripped by bare granite rocks and supporting a cluster of trees. 
 Signed at lower right, Geo. INNEss. 
 
 W ater-color: Height, 10% inches; length, 14% inches 
 
 THE WOODLAND BANK, HASTINGS 
 
 At left and right, slender trees with ragged depending foliage; between 
 them a vista of plain with roughly indicated vegetation. Signed at lower 
 
 left, G. INNEss. 
 Charcoal drawing: Height, 10% inches; length, 14% inches 
 
 THE GORGE 
 
 The bed of a mountain stream bordered by huge masses of granite rock, 
 from which rise a sheer two hundred feet the sides of the chasm concealed 
 behind a curtain of tangled greenery. Signed at lower left below edge 
 
 of frame. 
 Water-color: Height, 1334 inches; width, 10 inches 
 
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 33. A BROOK IN THE CATSKILLS 
 
 The upper waters of a brook curving between granite rocks spanned by a 
 trestle bridge. On either side, and in the background a curtain of hazy 
 verdure with gray sky above. Signed at lower right, G. INNEss. 
 
 Water-color: Height, 10 inches; length, 14 inches 
 
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 MIUGTON, Noy 
 
 A mature landscape drawing, embodying a subtle sense of the gradations 
 of light, economically expressed in monotone. A calm river, in which cattle 
 are wading, flows into the right foreground, between meadows with masses 
 of trees. In the left foreground, by a fallen dead tree, a fisherman in shirt- 
 sleeves. Signed at lower right, Geo. INNEss. 
 
 Charcoal drawing with wash: Height, 113@ inches; length, 1734 inches 
 
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 Pee kiVER BANK 
 
 An exquisite composition of pastel foliage colors. On a green mound in 
 the left foreground are young bare trees with wildly straggling twigs, look- 
 ing down on the meadow beneath; on the grass at the right is the figure of 
 a boy. In the middle distance a gentle river winds between banks of pale 
 gray-green woodland with early foliage, and reflects a part of the intense 
 blue of the morning sky. Signed at lower left, Geo. INNEss, 
 
 Water-color: Height, 133% inches; length, 19% inches 
 
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36. A JUNE AFTERNOON 
 
 Broadly treated, with an easy mastery of light effects. “Trees fringe the 
 grassy bank at the left, which merges into the gravel shoals of a river washing 
 the right foreground. On the farther bank, meadows with beeches and 
 oaks and a slowly undulating line of hills in the distance. Signed at lower 
 left, G. INNEss. 
 
 Water-color: Height, 1234 inches; length, 19% inches 
 
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 37. LANDSCAPE WITH RIVER AND TREES 
 
 The placid water winds leisurely in the left foreground, curling past a 
 grassy bank at the left, crowned by trees; the undulating meadows of the 
 right bank also fringed with scattered woodland, the detail of the fore- 
 ground trees meticulously worked out. The whole valley is flooded with 
 sunshine. Signed at lower right, Gro. INNEss. 
 
 Water-color: Height, 133% inches; length, 19 inches 
 
 Illustrated in Life, Art, and Letters of George Inness, by George Inness, Jr., 
 1917, facing page 27. 
 
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 Seated in the long grass is a small boy wrapped in a black coat and wearing 
 a red cap, staring stolidly at a black turkey; behind them a hurdle fence 
 crosses the meadow, other fowls seen through the gap. Running away 
 along the left is a fringe of trees with spring foliage tangled up in the blue 
 sky, with its masses of white cloud. In the right middle distance a copse. 
 Signed at lower right, Gro. INNEss. 
 
 Water-color: Height, 19 inches; width, 13 inches 
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 ekekicACHES OF THE RIVER 
 
 A pile of smooth-topped rocks, over the edge of which can be seen a light 
 patch of water; the whole scene mantled behind with towering verdure. 
 Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. 
 
 Water-color: Height, 1034 inches; length, 14% inches 
 
 tae TROUL STREAM 
 
 A pattern of delicately modulated greens, the grass shadowed by an imper- 
 ceptible curtain of trees with a suggestion of a stream curving into the 
 foreground. Signed at lower right, G. INNEss. 
 
 Water-color: Height, 13 inches; length, 19 inches 
 
 OM. PATNEUNGS 
 
 PN ePAS TURE 
 
 A glint of water in the foreground breaks the monotony of the enormous 
 green plain extending as far as the horizon, beneath a darkening sky. Here 
 and there the forms of black and white cattle. Signed at lower left with 
 initials, G. I. 
 
 Board: Height, 534 inches; length, 8% inches 
 
 AFTERGLOW 
 
 Red-brown earth in the foreground, with the upright form of a green 
 poplar. On the green land in the middle distance are reddened trees and a 
 house struck with orange light from the sunset. Above the distant hills a 
 thread of pink cirrus cloud. Signed at the lower right, G. Iyness. 
 
 Board: Height, 634 inches; length, 834 inches 
 
 A SUMMER AFTERNOON 
 
 A group of tall tree-trunks at the left, and a drapery of foliage at the right, 
 frame an arch through which is seen a prospect of wooded valley. ‘The 
 tones of the leafage are dominated by a body color of pale brown. Signed 
 
 at lower left, G. INNEss. 
 Board: Height, 9% inches; length, 12% inches 
 
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 CATSKILL MOUNTAINS 
 
 A hump of black earth dipping at the right does duty for the range; the 
 foreground in the middle distance is rough grassland with tangled green 
 undergrowth, brooded over by the failing light. Signed at lower left, 
 G. INNEss. 
 
 Board: Height, 7 inches; length, 12 inches 
 
 THE LOG 
 
 A rounded cylinder of hewn tree-trunk lies in the grass and ferns; behind 
 it the foliage of the edge of a wood, with the trunk of a beech tree at the 
 
 left wreathed by emerald leaves. 
 Board: Height, 13% inches; width, 12% inches 
 
 AUTUMN TREES ; . 
 A graceful pyramid of oaks and poplars with dark green and brilliant red 
 foliage, rising from a mass of tangled green and brown bushes and under- 
 growth. Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. 
 
 Height, 10% inches; width, 8% inches 
 
 (LH ESRIODsOAK 
 
 Almost in the centre of the rolling land, with its patches of autumn greens 
 and browns, is the brilliant feathery shape of a red oak, blazing among the 
 patches of low-toned color. ‘The sky is darkened by clouds at the zenith, 
 almost obscuring a brilliant blue. . 
 
 Academy board: Height, 9 inches; length, 14 inches 
 Painted near Montclair, N. J. 
 
 ROME, THE APPIAN WAY 
 
 A delightful painting of the great road of which Inness made several larger 
 studies on his Italian journey. In the foreground, the ruined arch of an 
 aqueduct overgrown with moss and creepers, men mounted on donkeys pass- 
 ing slowly down the sunlit road into the valley below, the curve of the road 
 visible in the left middle distance. Behind, the wooded country rises 
 
 steadily towards the distant mountains. 
 Height, 12 inches; width, 9 inches 
 
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 In the left foreground, the rounded mass of rock, behind which is a cluster 
 of tree-trunks. A green meadow, crossed by a path and fringed by trees and 
 shrubs, lies in the sunshine behind it; brown hills are visible in the distance. 
 
 Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. 
 Height, 10 inches; length, 14 inches 
 
 ETRETAT, NORMANDY 
 
 A deserted brown plain, with a patch of black scrub on the ridge forming 
 a low mound against the horizon. An inky gray sky partly conceals roughly 
 outlined patches of white high-lights. Signed at lower right, G. INNEss. 
 
 Board: Height, 12 inches; length, 1734 inches 
 
 IN THE MEADOW 
 
 Among the long grass in the right foreground and middle distance are the 
 
 ‘immobile forms of a number of white and black cattle; the nearest in profile 
 
 to the right beside a fallen tree. Behind them is a river on which is floating 
 
 a boat, the flat grassland of the farther bank, with its thick bulk of green 
 
 forest, and an horizon of lurid orange. Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. 
 Height, 12% inches; length, 19 inches 
 
 POG weOr THE WOODS 
 
 A clearing of grass girdled round by trees, the brown trunks of the nearer 
 
 ones divined in the right foreground, amid grass of a brilliant green. ‘Tiny 
 
 patches of sky are visible through the yellowish foliage in the background. 
 Academy board: Height, 13 inches; length, 18% inches 
 
 OeveaGE AND YOUTH 
 
 An allegory, depicting a young child in green embracing an old man with 
 shirt and coat open, leaning on crutches and looking out to the right over the 
 water, where the sky is ink black. Along the edge of the shore, vague 
 youthful forms are rising to mock him with the challenge of Youth. Signed 
 
 at lower right, G. INNEss. 
 Academy board: Height, 18 inches; length, 24 inches 
 
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 ALEXANDRIA BAY 
 
 Swampy country with long lush grass, fringing a narrow stream on which 
 is a boat containing two men; at the right are two children watching them, 
 balanced at the left by the highlights on a freshly-hewn tree-stump. Behind 
 is a rude shanty amid scattered rocks, trees and in the distance at the left, 
 a trestle bridge crossing the stream, which has wound round a bend. ‘The 
 sky is a brilliant blue at the zenith and filled with a pale light low down to 
 where, through a gap in the trees, are seen walls and a white tower. Signed 
 at lower left, G. INNEss. 
 
 Academy board: Height, 16 inches; length, 24 inches 
 
 A typical painting of the beginning of Inness’ last period. 
 
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 TARPON SPRINGS, FLORIDA 
 
 A nocturne dominated by the opposition of brilliant blue sky and russet- 
 brown earth; from the latter rise the slender poles of three saplings and the 
 edge of a distant wood with a farmhouse nestling amid poplars at the left. 
 The land is bisected by a causeway running straight away from the observer, 
 and crossing in the foreground a pool of water reflecting the night sky. 
 Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. 
 
 Academy board: Height, 18% inches; length, 24% inches 
 
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 MIL‘TON-ON-THE-HUDSON 
 In this painting great depth is obtained by the artifice of using a solitary flat 
 screen of trees in the foreground. ‘The land, which is at first of lush emerald 
 grass and strewn with rocks, changes abruptly on passing this small cluster 
 of saplings to swamp country, orange-brown and interspersed with pools of 
 water, reaching to the horizon and bordered with a stripe of blue hills; the 
 heavens are filled with white clouds, beneath which are small irregular 
 patches of blue. Signed below at left of centre, G. INNEss. 
 
 Panel: Height, 17% inches; width, 16% inches 
 
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 THE SHAWANGUNK MOUNTAINS, N. Y. 
 
 Pasture land, the mournful greenish-brown earth dropping away at the left 
 into distant plain with a village in the valley near the curving shores of a 
 lake; on the edge of the near road which winds down towards the town, 
 a figure, possibly that of a shepherd watching his sheep. A hill juts out 
 sharply in a promontory at the right, with figures of grazing animals sil- 
 houetted on its summit. “The sky is gray and sapphire with a ribbon of 
 pink low down. Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. 
 
 Height, 18 inches; length, 26 inches 
 
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 THE ROMAN CAMPAGNA 
 The rounded arches of a viaduct, over which cattle are passing, crosses the 
 valley, losing itself in a straggling mass of autumn trees at the left; in the 
 right foreground the land is patterned with patches of brown, green and yel- 
 low. Behind, on a hill buttressed by trees, is a cluster of red-roofed white 
 buildings knit into the trailing bulk of a town, which straggles down the 
 hill, almost out of sight. As far as the eye can see, the view is of quiet 
 green plain. Signed at lower right, G. INNEss. 
 
 Height, 12% inches; length, 25% inches 
 
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 AUTUMN EVENING 
 
 A variation of a favorite subject, to which the artist recurs again and again. 
 Round trees at left and right, with russet autumn foliage, are silhouetted 
 sharply yet vaguely against the blue-green of the evening sky. “The brown 
 land is filled with warm tones and lies still; under the trees is the dark, 
 almost mystic, figure of a woman. Signed at lower right, G. INNEss. 
 
 Academy board: Height, 18 inches; length, 24% inches 
 
 WHITE DURKEYS 
 
 A stone building stands at the left, the abutting wall crossing the foreground 
 and broken by a narrow gap through which a confused flock of birds is 
 passing. Behind it, at the left, and watching the turkeys, is the figure of a 
 woman under a tree; at the right, the coop. <A vista of wooded country is 
 seen beneath a sky of the palest ultramarine. Signed at lower right, 
 
 G. INNEss. 
 Panel: Height, 16 inches; length, 24 inches 
 
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 SEE-SAW 
 
 The grass and the thick copse of trees behind are filled with a pure green 
 color, glowing in the sunshine. Ina corner of the field are figures of wood- 
 cutters and the rounded forms of two huge tree-trunks lying in the grass; 
 on one of them a man and a small boy are see-sawing on a plank, watched by 
 the men and by a lady at the left in a white dress, carrying a red parasol. 
 Signed at lower left, G. INNEss, and dated 1882. 
 
 Height, 15 inches; length, 26 inches 
 
 This picture was painted during one of the many delightful summers 
 
 which Inness spent on the property of Mrs. Asia Hallock at Milton. The 
 lady in the white dress is Mrs. George Inness, the wife of the painter. 
 
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 SPRINGTIME 
 
 A certain sympathetic draftsmanship is displayed in the carefully felt, wrig- 
 gling contours of the foliage—a windblown mass of yellowish-green trees 
 at left and at right, sensitively sketched in pencil and brightened with deli- 
 cately toned color, ‘The trees surround a. small lake, the water of which 
 reflects the pinkish cloud in the sky, and is bridged, where the trees come 
 together, by a trestle. 
 
 Panel: Height, 20 inches; length, 30 inches 
 
 TWILIGHT POOL 
 
 ‘The near bank cuts sharply across the left hand bottom corner of the canvas; 
 it drops suddenly to a small pool palely reflecting the uncertain light of the 
 evening sky. Behind it, green meadows and an oblong bulk of forest 
 bounded at its right end by three tall saplings with shivering brown foliage. 
 
 Height, 20 inches; length, 30 inches 
 
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 ‘THE BROOK 
 
 A grassy bank, with bushy undergrowth, and in the shadow of the edge of 
 a wood, slopes gently down to the narrow waters of a stream flowing diago- 
 nally into the right foreground. On the right bank, brown and green shrub- 
 bery and an impenetrable mass of September forest. “The trees and their 
 reflections fill the whole atmosphere with multitudinous green tones. Signed 
 
 at the lower left, Gro. INNEss. 
 Height, 22 inches; length, 28 inches 
 
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 APPLE TREES; MILTON; No ¥; 
 
 A hollow in the orchard, the meadow rising over a low undulating ridge in 
 the middle distance to disappear between the curtains of green leaves which 
 fringe it, broken by an irregular gap of lght sky. ‘Che apple trees, with 
 their short sturdy trunks and rugged branches are disposed, two on the ridge 
 and one in the left foreground, deep-rooted in the grass. Signed at lower 
 left, G. INNEss. 
 
 Height, 20 inches; length, 30 inches 
 
 Painted in the orchard of Mrs. Asia Hallock’s property at Milton. Cf. 
 No. 75: 
 
 SUNSET. THROUGH S THice P Riis 
 
 A quiet scene reproduced with nervously scrawled brush strokes; two impene- 
 trable piers of foliage interspersed with slender tree-trunks supporting a leafy 
 arch in which is hung the fiery orange of the sunset. A species of yew-tree 
 points sharply upwards from the ground into the heart of the light; near it, on 
 the grass, is the dark figure of a man. Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. 
 
 Panel: Height, 18 inches; length, 24 inches 
 
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 GREEN MARSHES 
 
 A misty atmosphere broods over the uncertain outline of the marshes; water 
 and reeds closely intermingled into a smooth green compound of swamp 
 land. In the right foreground, the figure of a man standing up in a flat- 
 bottomed boat. On the farther shore is a screen of forest, the green of the 
 trees blending with that of the reeds and narrowing in perspective down at 
 the right. Signed at lower right, G. INNEss. 
 
 Height, 20 inches; length, 30 inches 
 
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 THE BOUNDARY LINE 
 
 Painted with long assured brush strokes and blocked out quickly into grad- 
 uated lights. In the foreground is a green meadow, of which the first part 
 is in shadow; crossing this, the eye encounters a low fence dividing the canvas 
 below the middle line and supporting the purplish trunks of a row of irregu- 
 larly spaced trees, with summer foliage. Behind again is a field in sunlight, 
 flanked by a mass of vaporous woodland. Sitting on the grass by the fence 
 are roughly sketched figures. Signed at lower right, G. INNEss. 
 
 Height, 24 inches; length, 36 inches 
 
 The rapid study above is of the boundary fence between the properties of 
 George Inness and his son-in-law, J. Scott Hartley, at Montclair, N. J. 
 
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 OIL PAINTINGS & WATER-COLORS BY GEORGE VIN ESS 
 
 LANDSCAPE, MONTCLAIR 
 
 A broad brown band of meadow merges imperceptibly into green grass, the 
 wide expanse broken only by a feathery-topped tree and the small figure of a 
 man striding through the meadow at the right. ‘The far boundary of the 
 field at left and right is composed of the softly rounded green and pinkish 
 masses of oaks and beeches, behind which can be dimly seen the village and 
 low hills beneath chalky blue heavens. ‘The atmosphere is soft and dewy, 
 blending values and blurring perspectives into unimportant confusion. Signed 
 
 at lower left, G. Inness, and dated 1894. 
 Height, 24 inches; length, 36 inches 
 
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 WASHING DAY NEAR PERUGIA 
 A narrow stream curves through the scene in the left foreground; on the 
 edge of the water, under the lee of the high bank, are figures of washer- 
 women in red blouse and blue skirt. Both banks are crowned by trees, the 
 foliage of which melts together into a cloud of green; in the right middle 
 distance a woman in a blue skirt is walking towards the open fields and the 
 square mediaeval outbuilding in the distance. A picture delicately treated in 
 color and swift movement of outline. Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. 
 Panel: Height, 17% inches ; width, 15 inches 
 This delightful picture was painted in 1874, during one of the two summers 
 that Inness passed at Perugia. 
 
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 NIAGARA 
 
 A grassy mound of bank in the left foreground, at the foot of a stone pier 
 of the bridge; on a boulder beside it, watching the spectacle, is the figure 
 of a lady in a yellow dress. Before her, the whole boiling mass of bluish- 
 black and green water with its clouds of flying spray rising from the rounded 
 rocks at the foot of the falls. Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. 
 
 Height, 17 inches; length, 25 inches 
 This interesting canvas contains two separate studies of the falls, made 
 by the artist from different viewpoints. It was one of the preliminary paint- 
 ings preceding the large Niagara, commissioned by and painted for his friend, 
 Mr. Roswell-Smith, founder of The Century Magazine, afterwards father-in- 
 law of George Inness, Jr. 
 
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 The farmhouse lies in the right middle distance behind a stone wall, with a 
 clump of tall poplars and other trees. “The meadowland extends away in 
 the sunshine to the horizon; in the foreground are scattered saplings, hens 
 pecking about in the grass, and a nursemaid wheeling a cheerful baby in a 
 perambulator shaded by a red parasol, the infant beckoning towards the 
 figure of an elderly lady in white blouse and cap, looking back from near 
 the farmhouse. Signed at lower left, G. INNEss, and dated 1882. 
 
 Height, 17 inches; length, 24 inches 
 
 Another of the rarely intimate pictures painted by the artist on the estate 
 of Mrs. Asia Hallock at Milton, where writers, among them Harriet Beecher 
 Stowe, and artists gathered during the summers of the ’eighties. The baby 
 in the perambulator is Miss Rose Hartley, the elderly lady Mrs. Hallock. 
 
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 72. INTERIOR OF A WOOD 
 A glade, with the grass in shadow and ringed about by the trunks of six 
 trees which lose themselves in a haze of spring foliage; an evanescent gap in 
 the central middle distance admits only the vaguest glimpse of sky. On the 
 circumference of the circle of trunks is a figure at the right. Signed at lower 
 left, G. INNEss. 
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 THE COMING STORM 
 
 A sky filled with cumulus, darkened at the left by a mass of inky storm 
 clouds hanging over a farmhouse and a belt of woodland which extends 
 across the whole plain, is faintly lighted at the left by the yellow rays of an 
 invisible sun. In the meadow, brown and white cattle are grazing placidly; 
 in the left foreground is a low rise of rough grass with a copse of trees, 
 before it standing a shepherd in blue smock and straw hat, holding a crook, 
 and accompanied by his dog. Signed below at centre, G. INNEss. 
 
 Height, 27% inches; length, 42 inches 
 
 This noteworthy painting, one of the most maturely handled of all his 
 
 works, was executed about 1880. It was originally given as a wedding 
 present by the artist to his daughter, Mrs. J. S. Hartley. 
 
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 ‘This distinguished picture embodies a profound study of shadows, falling 
 on the fresh green grass of an orchard. ‘The straggling wall crossing the 
 middle distance is backed by thick woods slightly parted by a hesitant gap 
 at the centre; by the wall is a single apple tree, a second set firmly in the 
 left foreground and beautifully modeled by the play of light on its bark 
 and branches. In the breaking-up of the grass by the effects of the dim 
 light and the detail of the solitary wildflower in the foreground are seen the 
 whole of Inness’ profound observation of nature. Signed at lower right, 
 G. INNEss. 
 
 Height, 30 inches; length, 34%4 inches 
 
 The apple orchard of Mrs. Asia Hallock’s estate at Milton, of which 
 Inness made many studies. This important painting is one of the freshest 
 
 and most delightful works of his last period. 
 
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 70. IHE FIRST ROUNDHOUSE OF THE D. DigAN Dye 
 AT SCRANTON 
 
 A wide survey of plain, thickly wooded at the left, with a broad gray band 
 of undulating hills in the background. In the centre of the scene, the 
 scattered houses and main street of a village, with a station and roundhouse 
 in the fields on the other side of the railroad track, which winds in a sinuous 
 curve to subdivide into two tracks in the foreground. Rounding a bend is 
 an early locomotive pulling a load of freight cars; in the distance are the 
 company’s remaining three trains. “The grass rises gently to the near fore- 
 ground and is scattered with tree stumps; on a mound beside a tree, a country 
 boy in red waistcoat is looking down at the trains. Signed at lower left, 
 G. INNEss. 
 
 Height, 34 inches; length, 50 inches 
 
 This painting was originally commissioned by the first president of the 
 D. L, and W. R. R. Inness journeyed by stage to Scranton to make a prelimi- 
 nary sketch, lost his bag, and had to write his wife for funds. He returned 
 and executed the present canvas; this was at first declared unsatisfactory by 
 the railroad committee, who insisted not only that he show all four trains of 
 the road but that the letters D. L. and W. appear on a locomotive. Inness 
 demurred, but being in need of money was persuaded by his wife to make the 
 necessary additions. The sequel may be quoted in Inness’ own words: “Here, 
 for instance, is a picture I made of Scranton, Pa., done for the Delaware and 
 Lackawanna Company, when they built the road. They paid me $75 for it. 
 Two years ago, when I was in Mexico City, I picked it up in an old curiosity 
 shop. You see I had to show the double tracks and the round house, whether 
 they were in perspective or not. But there is considerable power of painting 
 in it, and the distance is excellent.” [Obituary notice, Neaw York Herald, 
 August 12, 1894.] 
 
 This incident is also referred to in Life, Art, and Letters of George Inness, 
 by George Inness, Jr., 1917, p. 111. 
 
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 ‘THE; MILE xsPREAM, MON LCEAIR AN [. 
 
 An autumnal harmony of russet-reds, browns and greens, knit by a number 
 of strongly vertical lines. “The grass and brown undergrowth at the left 
 is fringed by a fence of tall bare birches and maples with russet foliage, the 
 straight slender figure of a young girl among them on the left bank of the 
 stream, which flows down in the foreground. At the right again, two tall 
 trees, the gap formed by the stream filled in the distance by a square tower 
 and a factory chimney rising from amid the houses of the village. Behind 
 all is a vaporous bluish maze of forest, and on the whole scene the yellow 
 light of late afternoon. Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. 
 
 Height, 30 inches; length, 45 inches 
 
 This picture was known in the Inness family as Crump’s Old Factory, 
 
 from the building in the distance. Mrs. Inness taking a fancy to the painting, 
 
 the artist gave it to her, whereupon, knowing his impulses, she promptly 
 
 placed it out of his reach by means of a painter’s tall ladder. Inness made 
 
 several attempts to recover the canvas, but was met with the ultimatum that 
 
 if he wanted it he should get the ladder for it; it consequently remained 
 untouched, and Inness afterwards confessed that he liked it very well indeed. 
 
 THE OLD BARN, MONTCLAIK N.S: 
 
 A bold synthesis of leading colors expressed by the cleverly indicated mass 
 of an orange-brown barn at the right, before it standing the figure of a 
 woman in blue; at the left, the edge of a forest with bluish-green shadows 
 under the trees. On the brilliant emerald of the grass at the extreme left 
 is a man in red cap, white shirt and blue trousers, pushing a wheel-barrow. 
 Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. 
 
 Height 30 inches; length 45 inches 
 
 One of the last works executed by Inness and a study of the barn on the 
 
 family property at Montclair. This picture has always been in the possession 
 
 of Mrs. J. S. Hartley, George Inness’ daughter, and has never been placed on 
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 79. THE END OF AN AUTUMN DAY 
 
 In gray-greens and yellows, a neutral tonality is suggested, robbing the tall 
 woods in the middle distance of their outline and their reflections; behind 
 them is a belt of orange sunset low down in a sky of pale turquoise. At the 
 left are trees by the pale surface of water and a tall sapling; in the right 
 foreground, the figure of a man stacking wood. Signed at lower right, 
 G. INNEss. 
 
 Height, 32 inches; length, 42 inches 
 
 The End of an Autumn Day was painted in 1894, and is one of the last 
 works executed by Inness. 
 
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