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Property from the Brooklyn Museum, Sold to Support Museum Collections

George Inness

A Summer Morning

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January 19, 07:25 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 USD

Lot Details

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Property from the Brooklyn Museum, Sold to Support Museum Collections

George Inness

1825 -1894

A Summer Morning


signed G. Inness and dated 1882-3 (lower left)

oil on canvas

48 ⅝ by 72 ⅛ in.

122.9 by 182.9 cm.

Executed in 1882-83.

William T. Evans, New York

American Art Association, New York, 1900, lot 270 (consigned by the above)

[with] William Clausen, New York (acquired from the above)

Mrs. Sarah M. Gibb

Acquired as a gift from the above in 1917 by the present owner

New York, National Academy of Design, Fifty-Eighth Annual Exhibition, 1883, no. 232

Munich, Königlicher Glaspalast, Illustrirter Katalog der Internationalen Kunstausstellung, 1883, no. 956b, p. 247 (titled Im Sommer)

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Handbook No. 6, Part II. Loan Collections and Recent Gifts to the Museum in the Old Eastern Gallery, 1891-92, no. 15, p. 17

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Handbook No. 6, Part II. Loan Collections and Recent Gifts to the Museum in the Old Eastern Gallery, 1892, no. 52, p. 19

Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum, Works of American Painters, 1860-1885, 1917, no. 35

Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum, Exhibition of Paintings by American Impressionists and Other Artists of the Period “1880-1900,” 1932, no. 57

Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum, Victoriana: An Exhibition of the Arts in the Victorian Era in America, 1960, no. 195

“In the Studio and Gallery,” New-York Daily Tribune, 30 October 1882, p. 2

“The Academy Exhibition,” The World, New York, 31 March 1883, p. 4

“National Academy of Design,” New-York Daily Tribune, 31 March 1883, p. 5

Charles M. Kurtz, ed., Illustrated Art Notes; Fifty-Eighth Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, 1883, no. 41, p. 40, illustrated

”Pictures; The National Academy of Design,” The Sun, New York, 2 April 1883, p. 2

G.W. Sheldon, “The Academy Exhibition,” Harper’s Weekly, vol. 27, April 1883, p. 220, illustrated

“The Exhibition, National Academy of Design,” Boston Evening Transcript, 11 April 1883, p. 6

Clarence Cook, “The Academy Exhibition,” The Art Amateur, vol. 8, May 1883, p. 127

“Art and Artists,” Boston Evening Transcript, 16 May 1883, p. 3

"American Pictures at the Munich Exhibition,” The Art Amateur, no. 3, 1883, p. 92

S.R. Koehler, The United States Art Directory and Year-Book, New York 1884, no. 22, illustrated

Nicolai Cikovsky, Life and Work of George Inness, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1965, p. 257, fig. 89

LeRoy Ireland, Works of George Inness: An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné, Austin 1965, no. 1046, p. 259, illustrated

William H. Truettner, “William T. Evans, Collector of American Paintings,” The Americana Art Journal 2, 1971, p. 75

The Brooklyn Museum, American Paintings: A Complete Illustrated Listing of Works in the Museum’s Collection, Brooklyn 1979, p. 68, illustrated

Karen B. Crenshaw, “A Study of George Inness’ Painting Technique,” American Institute of Conservators: Preprints, 1981, p. 61

Michael Quick, George Inness: A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. II, New Brunswick, 2007, no. 776, pp. 110-12, illustrated