Summer Landscape
Artist
George Inness
(American, 1825 - 1894)
Date1858
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 14 1/4 × 26 1/8 inches (36.2 × 66.37 cm)
Framed: 25 1/4 × 36 1/4 × 2 1/4 inches (64.14 × 92.08 × 5.72 cm)
Framed: 25 1/4 × 36 1/4 × 2 1/4 inches (64.14 × 92.08 × 5.72 cm)
Credit LineGift in memory of Cliff and Pat Jones
Object number2023.36
SignedLower right corner in black paint: "G. Inness 1858"
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DescriptionThis small, horizontally oriented oil on canvas painting in an ornate gold frame depicts a pastoral landscape in what appears to be the summer season. A wide, shallow stream with cattle standing in it runs through the scene starting at the lower left corner of the composition and continuing back into the image until about the midpoint where it disappears. The bank of the stream in the foreground and at the right-hand side of the composition is grassy. A large tree near the center of the canvas arches over the stream from the right bank. As the scene recedes into the distance, softly rolling hills meet the horizon. The blue sky is dotted with bands of clouds. The painting is signed and dated at the lower right in black paint: "G. Inness 1858."Exhibition HistoryKansas City Collects: A Selection of Works of Art
Privately Owned in the Kansas City Area, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Missouri, January 21–February 28, 1965
(as Delaware River Valley).
Purchased by Cliff Jones, Sr. 1930s;
To his son, Cliff C. Jones, Jr., Kansas City, MO, in 1960;
To his children after his death in Prairie Village, KS, in 2014;
Cliff C. Jones III, Blackwood, NJ; Leigh Jones-Bamman, Bainbridge Island, WA; and
Lisa J. Schellhorn, Shawnee Mission, KS;
On loan to the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 2014 to 2023;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2023.
Michael Quick, George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné Vol 1. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007), 144.
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