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Brush Burning

Alternate TitleThe Brush Burners
Artist George Inness (American, 1825 - 1894)
Date1884
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 20 1/4 x 30 1/2 inches (51.44 x 77.47 cm)
Framed: 29 1/2 x 39 5/8 inches (74.93 x 100.65 cm)
Credit LineGift of Albert R. Jones
Object number42-47
SignedSigned and dated lower left: G. Inness 1884
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionLandscape scene with two trees in center foreground; two figures to left around smoking brush fire.Published References
The Paintings of Two Americans, exh. cat. (New York: Union
League Club, 1898), unpaginated; “Clarke Pictures Bring
$234,495,” New York Herald, 18 February 1899, 12; “The T.B.
Clarke Art Sale,” New York Times, 18 February 1899, 4; Catalogue
of the Private Art Collection of Thomas B. Clarke, New York, exh.
cat. (New York: American Art Galleries, 1899), 71; “Paintings at
the Lotus,” New York Times, 31 January 1903, 2; “Art,” January
1903, clipping, Inness Papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Exhibition of American Paintings from the Collection of John Harsen Rhoades, Esq., exh. cat. (New York: Lotus
Club, 1903), 6; Exhibition of American Paintings from the Collection of John Harsen Rhoades, Esq., exh. cat. (New York: Lotus
Club, 1905), 4 (as The Brushburners); “Inness,” Masters in Art 9
(June 1908), 41, 253; “American Pictures at the Lotos Club,” New
York Times, 30 January 1914, 8 (as The Brushburners); Exhibition of American Paintings from the Collection of the Late John
Harsen Rhoades, Esq., exh. cat. (New York: Lotus Club, 1914),
5 (as The Brushburners); George Inness Centennial Exhibition,
1825–1925, exh. cat. (Buffalo, N.Y.: Buffalo Fine Arts Academy,
Albright Art Gallery, 1925), 12 (as The Brush Burners); Exhibition
of American Painting, exh. cat. (San Francisco: Press of H. S.
Crocker, 1935), unpaginated; Edward Alden Jewell, “Two Shows
Exhibit Art by Americans,” New York Times, 4 February 1936, 19;
Important Exhibition of 19th and 20th Century American Painters,
exh. cat. (New York: Milch Galleries, 1936), unpaginated; “George
Inness, Exhibition from the Collection and in Memory of Mr. and
Mrs. Albert R. Jones,” Bulletin (William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of
Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts) 1 (December 1958), 20
(as The Brush Burners); NAMA 1959, 256 (as The Brush Burners);
A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings by George Inness, exh. cat.
(Oshkosh, Wisc.: Paine Art Center, 1962), unpaginated (as The
Brush Burners); LeRoy Ireland, The Works of George Inness: An
Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné (Austin: University of Texas Press,
1965), 276, no. 1109; The Paintings of George Inness (1844–94),
exh. cat. (Austin: University Art Museum, University of Texas, 1965),
33; Lois Marie Fink, “The Role of France in American Art, 1850–
1870,” Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1970, vi, 83, 558–59;
Nicolai Cikovsky Jr., George Inness (New York: Praeger, 1971), 12,
no. 70; NAMA 1973, 252 (as Brush Burners); H. Barbara Weinberg, “Thomas B. Clarke: Foremost Patron of American Art from
1872 to 1899,” American Art Journal 8 (May 1976), 77; Nicolai
Cikovsky Jr., The Life and Work of George Inness (New York: Garland Publishing, 1977), ix, 285, fig. 91 (as The Brush Burners);
Cecilia E. CeCe Bullard, “Why Not Goochland? George Inness
and Goochland County,” Goochland County (Va.) Historical Society Magazine 20 (July–August 1988), 30 (as The Brush Burners);
NAMA 1991, 96–97 (as The Brush Burners); Rachel Ziady DeLue,
George Inness and the Science of Landscape (Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 2004), 178, 180 (as The Brush Burners).
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