Peters Ns on “4 ae Pe As =~ . t~; “1 Fm Se) = - F.! HIBITION re aaa | Beech 19 Pusu Time of Sale | We e Kays 9 to 6° Sunday 2 to 5 a = _ EXHIBITION ff SALE AT THE | _ American Art Galleries a “Madison Avenue * 56th to 57th Street eo a New York City a — ” ‘ 4 P ‘ - Panis GONDUCTED BY Mr. O. Bernet and Mr. H. H. Parke American Art Association: Inc MANAGERS 1927 ilo Pe re ee ye eee eee ye sere: ° ss “> , PORTRAIT OF THE LATE GEORGE INNESS Works by George Inness Peres tO Loe fT ON... OF Mrs. Jonathan Scott Hartley esold by Her Order ABS Including Some of the -Artist’s Finest “Paintings Never Before Exhibited + -And His Entire (ollection of Water-colors = © Under —Management of the American Art Association rw et) nh PD R.A TE New York 1927 Priced (atalogues Priced copies of the catalogue, or any session thereof, will be furnished by the Association at charges commensurate with the duties involved in copying the necessary information from the records of the Association. The AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION : Inc Designs its (atalogues and ‘Directs All Details of Illustration Text and Typography Conditions of Sale CLAM, _>5 REJECTION OF Bips. Any bid which is not commensurate with the value of the article offered, or which is merely a nominal or fractional advance, may be rejected by the auctioneer if in his judgment such bid would be likely to affect the sale injuriously. Tue Buyer. The highest bidder shall be the buyer, and if any dispute arises between two or more bidders, the auctioneer shall either decide the same or put up for re-sale the lot so in dispute. IDENTIFICATION AND Deposir By Buyer. The name of the buyer of each lot shall be given immediately on the sale thereof, and when so required, each buyer shall sign a card giving the lot number, amount for which sold, and his or her name and address. QL A deposit at the actual time of the sale shall be made of all or such part of the purchase prices as may be required. (If the two foregoing conditions are not complied with, the lot or lots so purchased may at the option of the auctioneer be put up again and re-sold. RisK AFTER PurcHaseE. ‘Title passes upon the fall of the auctioneer’s ham- mer, and thereafter the property is at the purchaser’s risk, and neither the consignor nor the Association is responsible for the loss of, or any damage to any article by theft, fire, breakage, however occasioned, or any other cause whatsoever. Devivery oF Purcnases. Delivery of any purchases will be made only upon payment of the total amount due for all purchases at the sale. ReEcEIPTED Britis. Goods will only be delivered on presentation of a re- ceipted bill. A receipted bill presented by any person will be recognized and honored as an order by the buyer, directing the delivery to the bearer of the goods described thereon. If a receipted bill is lost before delivery of the prop- erty has been taken, the buyer should immediately notify the Association of such loss. SroraGE IN DeFauLT oF Prompr PayMENT AND CALLING FoR Goons. Articles not paid for in full and not called for by the purchaser or agent by noon of the day following that of the sale may be turned over by the Associa~ tion to some carter to be carried to and stored in some warehouse until the time of the delivery therefrom to the purchaser, and the cost of such cartage and storage and any other charges will be charged against the purchaser and the risk of loss or damage occasioned by such removal or storage will be upon the purchaser. CL, In any instance where the purchase bill has not been paid in full by noon of the day following that of the sale, the Association and the auctioneer reserve the right, any other stipulation in these conditions of sale notwithstanding, in respect to any or all lots included in the purchase bill, at its or his option, either to cancel the sale thereof or to re-sell the same at public or private sale without further notice for the account of the buyer and to hold the buyer responsible for any deficiency and all losses and expenses sustained in so doing. é Surppinc. Shipping, boxing or wrapping of purchases is a business in which the Association is in no wise engaged, but the Association will, however, 10. Il. afford to purchasers every facility for employing at current and reasonable rates carriers and packers; doing so, however, without any assumption of responsibility on its part for the acts and charges of the parties engaged for such service. . Guaranty. The Association exercises great care to catalogue every lot correctly and endeavors therein and also at the actual time of the sale to point out any error, defect or imperfection, but guaranty is not made either by the owner or the Association of the correctness of the description, genuine- ness, authenticity or condition of any lot and no sale will be set aside on account of any incorrectness, error of cataloguing or imperfection not noted or pointed out. Every lot is sold ‘‘as is” and without recourse. QM Every lot is on public exhibition one or more days prior to its sale, and the Associa- tion will give consideration to the opinion of any trustworthy expert to the effect that any lot has been incorrectly catalogued and in its judgment may thereafter sell the lot as catalogued or make mention of the opinion of such expert, who thereby will become responsible for such damage as might result were his opinion without foundation. Recorps. The records of the auctioneer and the Association are in all cases to be considered final and the highest bid shall in all cases be accepted by both buyer and seller as the value against which all claims for losses or damage shall lie. BuyInc oN Orper. Buying or bidding by the Association for responsible parties on orders transmitted to it by mail, telegraph, or telephone, if con- ditions permit, will be faithfully attended to without charge of commission. Any purchases so made will be subject to the foregoing conditions of sale, except that, in the event of a purchase of a lot of one or more books by or for a purchaser who has not through himself or his agent been present at the exhibition or sale, the Association will permit such lot to be returned within ten days from the date of sale, and the purchase money will be refunded, if the lot differs from its catalogue description. (| Orders for execution by the Association should be given with such clearness as to leave no room for misunderstanding. Not only should the lot number be given, but also the title, and bids should be stated to be so much for the lot, and when the lot consists of one or more volumes of books or objects of art, the bid per volume or piece should also be stated. If the one transmitting the order is unknown to the Association, a deposit must be sent or reference submitted. Shipping directions should also be given. These conditions of sale cannot be altered except by the auctioneer or by an officer of the Association OTTO BERNET - HIRAM H. PARKE - c4uctioneers AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION - INC Managers oe > = 2 P 7 as ~—0me a. i 4g Ph ae: ? — f 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 smaller 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. & 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 ore 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. AMERICAN ArT AssocrIATION, INC. EVENING SESSION _ Thursday March 24, 1927 at 8:15 O'clock Catalogue Numbers I to 79 Inclusive 1. 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 flo. | | t2°) Hop PA75 2. TWILIGHT SKY An acute study of a mood of the sea, pale blue water rolling in crested waves towards the darker foreground, $s white sky suffused with pinkish cloud. Signed at lower right, G. INNEss. Water-color: Height, 4% inches; length, 9% inches _ shire 12, bern 3. 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 §. Giorgio Maggiore. Signed at lower right, G. INNEss. . Water-color: Height, 5 inches; length, 9 inches - AUS. Dowres- 4. 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 (00. OG Malyenger OIL PAINTINGS & WATER-COLORS BY GEORGE INNESS 5 ACROSS” DHE -CAvViPAGNA A wide vista of green meadow with a band of woodland in the right Ril: distance terminating on the flank of a village with red houses. Blue summe: r sky with white cirrus on the horizon. Signed at lower left, G. InNEss. Water-color: Height, 634 inches; length, 10 inches #150 | hea 6. ITALIAN DOORWAY OS ie The view is from the steps of a white stucco mansion in ‘the ainddines Pe _ foreground; before the eye of the spectator is a prospect of broad valley with Sa woodland below, and, in the distance, hills. in the sunshine under oe palest — of skies. Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. . ae te Water-color: Height, 8% eae’ width, 634, Sachem ob as a8 NEAR CADORI | Re, : — a 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 Abo. LLY, Aa Jaqqatt. 8. 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. INNEss. Water-color: Height, 734 inches; length, 103% inches — FIO. 4/ t+. Ha eee jae UNE 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 18 Loo | de. | EVENING SALE + THURSDAY MARCH 24, 1927 » - ¢ mo. 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 Inness, Jr., 1917, p. 82. [See illustration | & 4.20. 19 Ferargel All p OIL PAINTINGS & WATER-COLORS BY GEORGE INNESS ite eNE AR. ALV.@ieL 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 hes in the sunshine. Signed at lower right, G. INNEss. Water-color and pencil drawing: Height, 834 inches; length, 1034 inches [See illustration | fp L Fo ree i: EVENING SALE 12. COUNTRY 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 theend 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 [See illustration | 324. i ORM Yosé. OIL PAINTINGS & WATER-COLORS BY GEORGE INNESS 137, (NEAR CASTE ee@ ! A hill-path breaks through between groups of tall dark cypresses. “Chrough 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 — chee lly. 6. Marte 14. 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 phos 9 tha 4afpn 1s. 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 (60. {/) f- Nonneten 16. 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 A i se lho a antes > 17.0 tHE DOLOMT Tike 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, Gro. INNEss. Water-color: Height, 834 inches; length, 11% inches 360 : 22 We Me 4 roel ee Cc 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, 1154 inches; width, 934 inches [See illustration ] ITO ie ee i SPS £6 OIL PAINTINGS & WATER-COLORS BY GEORGE INNESS 19. THE ITALIAN HILLS 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 [See illustration | P1257 “M/S Hoan EVENING SALE + THURSDAY MARCH 24, 1927 20. ITALIAN TYROL | 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, 754 inches; length, 12 inches [See illustration | 25 S00. t Y), ire cai! 2 Te OIL PAINTINGS & WATER-COLORS BY GEORGE INNESS AN UPLAND VILLAGE IN THE ITALIAN. TYROL 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 nee of peasants. Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. Water-color: Height, 83% inches; length, 2 inches B 175: Y) Serre been pa Ia; 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: Hoe 8i4 inches; length, 11% inches 23: 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 ee in the central ind oun Signed at lower right, G. INNEss. Water-color: Height, 10% inches; length, 1434 inches es BL. Pontes ear 7s: (2d. annette oo EARLY SPRING, MONTCLAIR A sluggish river with a grassy sand bank rising to a green knoll at the right, 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 ALBANO, ITALY 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. Water-color: Height, 12% inches; width, 9% inches £00. lr Lhe Lee wear heer ENING SALE THURSDAY MARCH 24, 1927 _ 26. §. GIORGIO, VENICE . 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, 1334 inches [See illustration ] 27 300. CL. AM ctlon, ¥ eats OIL PAINTINGS & WATER-COLORS BY GEORGE INNESS 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. [See illustration | ff Sf 5 A nang Aol, EVENING SALE + THURSDAY MARCH 24, 1927 28. OLD APPLE 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, 12% inches Illustrated in the Life, Art, and Letters of George Inness, by George Inness, Jr., 1917, facing page 98. [See illustration | “ 2 : Z & : jor &. ef fo. fh, i — re OIL PAINTINGS & WATERCOLORS BY GEORGE INNE hits: 7 a THE OLD ROMAN ROAD ns as At the left, the road leading between high grass banks and tall trees ‘te | old round-arched gate; a town with its clustered houses straggles acr 1e middle distance and is dominated by the square white belfry of the pointing into. the sky. Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. . | Water-color: Height, inches; length, 4 es, | 30; MOUNTAIN ROAD. A peasant mounted on a horse, driving cows before him, is making ae way down a country road away from the observer. At the ‘left *nsestas grassy ridge partly stripped by bare granite rocks and supporting a cluster of trees. Sipaed at lower right, Geo. INNEss. | i W ater-color: Height, 104 inches; length, Wh inches — hdr ie i hae 31. THE WOODLAND BANK, HASTINGS an At left and ‘right, slender trees with ragged depending foliage; between ar “S them a vista of plain with roughly indicated vegetation. Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. i Charcoal drawing: Height, 10% inches; length, 14% inches LAD, f/ ae Vore. a 32, THE GORGE x 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 3 of frame. Water-color: Height, 1334 inches; width, 10 inches — EVENING SALE + THURSDAY MARCH 24, 1927 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 [See illustration | 31 2. - OO - tL Upsrks hrm. wi = stan) OIL PAINTINGS & WATER-COLORS BY GEORGE INNESS 34. MILTON, N. Y. | A mature landscape drawing, embodying a subtle sense of the gradations | of light, economically expressed in monotone. [See -illustration | A a8. e LA terlen | a a a A RS RA SRE A RO NNER RE ONE EVENING SALE + THURSDAY MARCH 24, 1927 ee a a 7 Se, d Peay gs @ ~ 35. THE RIVER 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, Gro. INNEss. Water-color: Height, 133 inches; length, 19% inches [See illustration | So ‘ LH ty. OIL PAINTINGS & WATER-COLORS. BY GEORGE INNESS 36. A JUNE AFTERNOON Broadly treated, with an easy mastery of light effects. “[rees 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 [See illustration | 34 / EVENING SALE ’ THURSDAY MARCH 24, 1927 ‘ ° 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. [See illustration ] oe) WwW ~ “Gg. ‘ \- // Joel a OIL PAINTINGS & WATER-COLORS BY GEORGE INNESS 38. THE TURKEY 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 [See illustration | 4 3ko. enn taat, Cee 7 e-hKa Bi LX Xk a 39. UPPER REACHES 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 a AV. Sout 40. THE TROUT STREAM 37) 41. 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 OTL PAINTINGS : IN THE PASTURE A glint of water in the foreground breaks the monotony of the enormous g y 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 [so . hI d/ | 42. 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. INNEss. Board: Height, 634 inches; length, 834 inches CS a I a / ov, | 43- A SUMMER AFTERNOON A group of tall tree-trunks at the left, and a drapery of foliage at the nght, 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 ee KY. Joke, . oe | $20 | 3 44. 45. OIL PAINTINGS & WATER:COLORS BY GEORGE INNESS 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 On | ee ‘THE LOG 7 | 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 — arise : ra fey Gal 46. AU DUMNG DREES 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. eI Height, 10% inches; wrdth, 8% inches — aes MO: bags 47. AES Re DZO Ale Almost in the centre of the rolling land, with its patches of autumn greens and browns, is the brillant 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. AqO ; LE ILhnay, 48. 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 8 - : Loo . MN. 4 Fretbacg Se on al i gr ae EVENING SALE + THURSDAY MARCH 24, 1927 49. THE ROCK 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 50. 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 570 . f 51. IN THE MEADOW foie 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 70° - is bee ofa Teg ahels. 52. EDGE OF 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 LJ Moire h-0 0 - kA J. OPTLO 53. OLD AGE 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 ; 39 [2° peat A. M bite ss. TARPON SPRINGS, FLORIDA balanced at the left by the highlights on a freshly-hewn tree-st 1 is a rude shanty amid scattered rocks, trees and in the distanc where, through a gap in the trees, are seen walls and a white ss at lower left, G. INNEss. a Academy board: Height, 16 inches ; engt 2407 Ae Pieal: painting if the beginning of Inness’ last period, [See illustration] 4 re o YG) y A nocturne dominated by the opposition of brilliant blue Se nde brown earth ; from the latter rise the slender He of three sap eet and and crossing in the foreground a pool 5 water reflecting the night a Signed at lower left, G. INNEss. 40 No. 54. ALEXANDRIA Bay 56. P ff 2 100. Ferargeh ls é 5/* OIL PAINTINGS & WATER-COLORS BY GEORGE INNESS 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 ~ [See illustration | THE SHAWANGUNK MOUNTAINS, N. Y. tm | Pasture land, the mournful greenish-brown earth dropping ae at rte 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 C Le / 0. i: : f iat b ab 42 No. 56. MiLtTON-oON-THE-HupDson OIL PAINTINGS & WATER-COLORS BY GEORGE INNEssS 58. 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 [See illustration | pith (000. Shige boeken’ 59. 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 / (, OO. ie Wala O77 } 60. WHITE TURKEYS 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 ee : f 6. d tnrchlha, : pi 44 a he > eo. 1 Cc a VNOVdWVd NVWOY GH, ‘gS ‘on 61. OIL PAINTINGS & WATER-COLORS BY GEORGE INNESS SEE-SAW The grass and the thick copse of trees behind are filled with a pure green color, glowing in the sunshine. In a 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. InneEss, 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. [See illustration | # eae H é. (Licaen ag © G2. / +F eu 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 O ova. a / f € y, ad : Cite [tm MAA DWICIGHISE OD ‘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 2B acy po 6 1 OQ. : f V4 yy fa af f LA. ( « MVS-ddS ‘19 ‘ON 64. OIL PAINTINGS & WATER-COLORS BY GEORGE INNESS 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, GEo. INNEss. Height, 22 inches; length, 28 inches [See illustration | 65. 66. As, (9. Gt bi APPLE TURE Esa Vibe TO NaN eye 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 light sky. The 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 PHROUGHe THE iii. 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 i hye Shes f | M ) : As 1 oe Croll 6, _ he ae _— = ™ No. 64. THE Brook OIL PAINTINGS & WATER-COLORS BY GEORGE INNESS 67. 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 [See illustration | x 1, a f Zz TP 8S Cotte Ci 6 dia 68. 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. 50 No. 67. GREEN MARSHEs eee 7] 69. HiSoo Se ate ; be j \ ares v—}; =, ta venus LANDSCAPE, MONTCLAIR ios A broad brown. band of meadow merges imperce wide expanse broken. only by a feathery-topped tre : man Sune through the meadow at the nely ai masses of aie) and nee sce nner can te low hills beneath chalky blue heavens. The at blending values and blurring perspectives into. un at tear left, G. Inness, and dated ooo a [See illustration | Pari 52 No. 69. LAnpscapeE, MonrTc.iair OIL PAINTINGS © WATER-COLORS BY GEORGE INNESS go. WASHING: DAYINEARSE ER UG 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. [See illustration ] - aa i f e& < fi a ey: 9 F a ae : pe 7 PAL Ag in 34 No. 70. WasHtnc Day Near PERuGIA Me Se ee a1. NIAGARA ate oe 9 - This interesting canvas contains two separate Btls: by the artist from different viewpoints. It was one of the ings preceding the large Niagara, commissioned by and pain for Mr. Roswell-Smith, founder of The Century Magazine, a fterwa d law of George Inness, Jr. we [See illustration] ff [500 | ee. M Ten py OIL PAINTINGS & WATER-COLORS BY GEORGE INNESS ON ‘THE FARM, MILTON Ne YY; 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. [See illustration | As LL. ga : 58 No. 7 ~ 2. ON THE Farm, Mitton, N. Y. OIL, PAINTINGS & -y . W. mh ae ' a - oye ce 44, PE TENGee Ae | = od } ae i i . . | : ~ ae de, with hee grass in p shadow and ringed ae left, G. INNES. Af ln 50. 60 No. 73. INTERIOR OF A Woop 74- OIL PAINTINGS & WATER-COLORS BY GEORGE INNESS 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 hghted 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. [See illustration | 62 No. 74. THE CoMING STORM OIL PAINTINGS & WATER-COLORS BY GEORGE Vis 75: THE: ORCHARDS MIL LONG Nie 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% 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. [See illustration ] joa g ; ve Le A He Gell fA ie 64 No. 75. THE Orcuarp, Mitton, N. Y. OIL PAINTINGS && WATER-COLORS BY GEORGE INNESS “6. ‘THE FIRST ROUNDHOUSE OF THE D. L. ANDS\eee 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 1s 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, New 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. [See illustration | ff Ley ye fs VY Z, Y W/), yy 66 No. 76. THE Firsr RouNDHOUsSE OF THE D. L. AND W. R. R. at ScRANTON / OIL PAINTINGS & WATER-COLORS BY GEORGE INNESS aa 77, LHe MILL SsTREAVE VIO NGC AT ces An autumnal harmony of russet-reds, browns and greens, knit by a number ¢ of strongly vertical lines. “he grass and brown undergrowth at the left ra is fringed by a fence of tall bare birches and maples with russet foliage, the We 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, a5 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. # aes H. 00. U wi : Se Ne 68 eve 78. THE OLD BARN, MONT CUAIR GIN a: YO [yt A bold synthesis of leading colors expressed by the cleverly indicated mass a 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 \\O ae x) 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. Wr 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 public exhibition. - ; yy, 7° 2 T ‘be paraele mt of Cc vy 68 V se ee tonality is suggested, robbing the tall ance of their outline and their reflections; behind =f zy down in a sky of pale turquoise. At the ce of water and a tall sapling; in the right stacking wood. Signed at lower right, a. Height, 32 inches; length, 42 inches — a "Das was painted in 1894, and is one of the last by Inness a — 2 : Ub. Pomalay {END OF SALE} ‘ b "0" N hog La 7 i= - y a 69 APPRAISALS FOR motes Do STATES 6& STATE TAX INSURANCE & OTHER PURPOSES Petar S OF PRIVATE COLLECTIONS APM,» 7. HE cAmerican Art Association, Inc. will furnish appraisements, made by experts under _ ts direct supervision, of art and literary property and all personal effects, in the settlement of estates, for inheritance tax, insurance and other purposes. QThe Association is prepared to supplement _ this appraisal work by making catalogues of pri- vale libraries, of the contents of homes or of entire estates, such catalogues to be modeled after the fine and intelligently produced sales’ catalogues of the cAssociation. @ Upon request the Association will furnish the names of many trust and insurance companies, executors, administrators, trustees, attorneys and private individuals for whom the Association has made appraisements which not only have been entirely satisfactory to them, but have been accepted by the United States Estate Tax Bureau, the State Tax (ommission and others in interest. AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION - INC Madison Avenue at 57th Street NEW YORK is a, ye gs ae we a"~ SS. ins me i , # _ AND BINDING BY as Riga . 2. Pons al hak ° oe = we — Poa: 7 9 e = ee ts La wgh Sue