Old Farm—Montclair
Framed: 40 3/8 x 60 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches (102.55 x 154.31 x 11.43 cm)
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Exhibition of the Paintings Left by the Late G. Inness, American Fine Arts Society, New York, December 27, 1894–February 1, 1895, no. 41 (as The Old Farm).
Paintings by the Late George Inness, N.A., Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, February 2–14, 1895, no. 209 (as The Old Farm).
[“Inness, Martin, Wyant, Homer, Murphy”], Ainslie Galleries, New York, May 1920, no cat.
Landscape into Art, Atlanta Art Association, February 6–25, 1962, no. 40 (as Old Farm—Montclair).
George Inness of Montclair, Montclair Art Museum, N.J., January 12–February 16, 1964, no. 52 (as Old Farm at Montclair).
Impressionism in America, University of New Mexico Art Gallery, Albuquerque, February 9–May 5, 1965 (traveled), no. 29 (as The Old Farm—Montclair).
George Inness, 1825–1894: Paintings by an American Landscapist, Tucson Art Center, Ariz., November 29, 1965–January 2, 1966, unnumbered (as Old Farm, Montclair).
George Inness Landscapes: His Signature Years, 1884–1894, Oakland Art Museum, Calif., November 28, 1978–April 15, 1979 (traveled), unnumbered (as The Old Farm, Montclair).
The United States and the Impressionist Era, San Jose Museum of Art, Calif., November 17, 1979–January 9, 1980, unnumbered (as The Old Farm—Montclair).
George Inness, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, April 1, 1985–September 7, 1986 (traveled), no. 60 (as The Old Farm, Montclair).
To estate of the artist, New Jersey, 1894;
to (Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, February 1895);
to William T. Evans, Montclair, N.J., February 1895;
to private collection, by gift, 1895;
(George Ainslie, New York, by 1920–at least March 1929);
(Milch Galleries, New York, after 1931);
Albert R. Jones, Kansas City, Mo.;
to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., 1939.
American Fine Arts Society, Exhibition of the Paintings Left by the Late G. Inness, exh. cat. (New York: Republic Press, 1894), 32 (as The Old Farm).
“End of the Inness Sale,” New York Times, February 15, 1895, 4 (as Old Farm).
“The George Inness Sale,” Collector 6 (February 15, 1895), 131 (as The Old Farm).
“Sale of Inness’ Works Ended,” New York Herald, February 15, 1895, 9 (as The Old Farm).
Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, February 12–14, 1895, lot 209 (as The Old Farm).
“At Ainslie Gallery,” American Art News 18 (May 29, 1920), 1 (as The Old Farm—Moonrise).
Ameen Rihani, “Landscape Painting in America: Part I,” International Studio 70 (May 1920), 61, 64 (as Old Farm at Montclair).
“Ainslie, Old Masters and American Paintings,” advertisement, International Studio 92 (March 1929), 97 (as The Old Farm).
“Masterpiece for March at Gallery,” Kansas City Journal, March 3, 1940, 7.
“Masterpiece
of the Month,” Gallery News (William Rockhill
Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine
Arts) 6 (March 1940), 3–4.
Carol Rothschild, “Recent Museum Acquisitions,” Parnassus 12 (May 1940), 49.
The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 149, 156, 166 (as The Old Farm, Montclaire and The Old Farm, Montclair).
The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd. ed. (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 202 (as The Old Farm, Montclair).
Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, Mo.: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 256 (as The Old Farm—Monclair).
Landscape into Art, exh. cat. (Atlanta: Atlanta Art Association, 1962), unpaginated (as Old Farm—Montclair).
George Inness of Montclair, exh. cat. (Montclair, N.J.: Montclair Art Museum, 1964), unpaginated (as Old Farm at Montclair).
Impressionism in America, exh. cat. (Albuquerque: Art Gallery, University of New Mexico, 1965), 36–37 (as The Old Farm—Montclair).
George Inness, 1825–1894: Paintings by an American Landscapist, exh. cat. (Tucson, Ariz.: Tucson Art Center, 1965), unpaginated (as Old Farm, Montclair).
LeRoy Ireland, The Works of George Inness: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965), 320, no. 1457 (as The Old Farm).
William H. Treuttner, “William T. Evans, Collector of American Paintings,” American Art Journal 3 (Fall 1971), 75.
Nicolai Cikovsky Jr., George Inness (New York: Praeger, 1971), 12, no. 90 (as Old Farm, Montclair).
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 252 (as The Old Farm—Montclair).
Nicolai Cikovsky Jr., The Life and Work of George Inness (New York: Garland Publishing, 1977), xi, 332 (incorrectly numbered as fig. 112), 366, fig. 122 (as Old Farm, Montclair).
Marjorie Dakin Arkelian, George Inness Landscapes: His Signature Years, 1884–1894, exh. cat. (Oakland, Calif.: Oakland Art Museum, 1978), 61 (as The Old Farm, Montclair).
Dan Gheno, “Inness Art,” News and Review (Santa Barbara, Calif.), February 15, 1979, 16 (as The Old Farm—Montclair).
The United States and the Impressionist Era, exh. cat. (San Jose, Calif.: San Jose Museum of Art, 1980), unpaginated (as The Old Farm—Montclair).
Nicolai Cikovsky Jr. and Michael Quick, eds., George Inness, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1985), 196–97 (as The Old Farm, Montclair).
Henry Adams, Handbook of American Paintings in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Mo.: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1991), 98 (as Old Farm—Montclair).
Nicolai Cikovsky Jr., George Inness (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993), 115 (as Old Farm, Montclair).
“Art Notes,” Kansas City Star, July 4, 1999, J8.
The American Art Book (London: Phaidon, 1999), 221 (as Old Farm— Montclair).
A Connecticut Place: Weir Farm, an American Painter’s Rural Retreat, exh. cat. (Wilton, Conn.: Weir Farm Trust, 2000), 54–55.
Rachel Ziady DeLue, George Inness and the Science of Landscape (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), 183–84, 215 (as Old Farm, Montclair).
Margaret C. Conrads, ed. The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Paintings to 1945 (Kansas City, Mo.: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007), 1: 17, 346, 350-352 (repro.); 2:144-145 (repro.).
Michael Quick, George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 2 (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007), 398 (repro.).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 155, 169 (repro.).
