Glorious America: The Wolf Family Collection
Glorious America: The Wolf Family Collection
George Inness
Autumn Near Marshfield
Auction Closed
April 20, 09:25 PM GMT
Estimate
70,000 - 100,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
George Inness
1825 - 1894
Autumn Near Marshfield
signed G. Inness and dated 1876 (lower right)
oil on canvas
16 x 24 in. (40.6 x 61 cm.)
Executed in 1876.
This lot is accompanied by a letter of authentication by Michael Quick and will be included in the forthcoming supplement of his Catalogue Raisonné.
Henry M. Johnston, Brooklyn
[with] Fifth Avenue Art Gallery, New York (until 1893)
Thomas B. Clarke, New York (until 1899)
[with] American Art Galleries, New York
Mrs. B.P. Cheney
Mrs. W.H. Schofield (until 1936)
[with] American Art Association & Anderson Galleries, New York
Kleeman Galleries, New York (acquired by 1936)
Davis & Long Co., New York
Wolf Family Collection No. 0475 (acquired from the above on June 16, 1980)
Leroy Ireland, The Works of George Inness: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné, 1965, no. 797, p. 198, illustrated
Elliott Daingerfield, Fifty Paintings by George Inness, New York, 1913, pl. 13, illustrated
Chicago, Jackson Park, World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, no. 604, p. 20 (as Near Marshfield)
New York, Union League Club, Inness and Homer Exhibition, 1898, no. 4
New York, American Art Galleries, Thomas B. Clarke Sale, 1899, no. 38, p. 70
New York, American Art Association & Anderson Galleries, European and American Paintings, 1936, no. 26, p. 12, illustrated
San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, American Forerunners Exhibition, 1936, no. 4971
George Inness spent four years in Europe beginning in 1870, completing landscape paintings of his travels as he went. Upon returning to the states in 1874, Inness settled in Massachusetts, where Autumn Near Marshfield was painted. "His works of 1875 and 1876 are immediately appealing for their free and elegant brushwork and their fuller color," states Michael Quick, author of the George Inness Catalogue Raisonné. Dated 1876, the present work encompasses the bold use of color and expressive application of paint that characterize the artist's style from his Boston period. Autumn Near Marshfield has strong exhibition history dating back to the 1890s and is being offered publicly for the first time in over forty years.