Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00000258Sunny Autumn Day
About the Artwork
Highly prolific, Inness created more than 1,000 works during a career lasting 50 years. Dated just two years before his death, Sunny Autumn Day epitomizes his late style in which the physical landscape is transformed into something akin to a spiritual apparition. Featuring blurred forms and atmospheric effects from translucent colors, this scene reflects Inness’s mystical view of the natural world.
Inscriptions
Signed lower left: "G. Inness 1892:
Provenance
By October 1892-1899: Thomas B. Clarke, New York, NY [1884-1931], purchased from artist1 1899: (American Art Galleries, American Art Association, New York, Feb. 14-18, 1899, no. 184, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey J. Blair) 1899-: Chauncey J. [1843–1916] and Mary Mitchell Blair [1856-1940], Chicago1 -1925: Walter Clark Runyon [1857-1929] and Berenice Agnew Runyon [b. 1873], Scarsdale, NY1 1925: (Macbeth Gallery, New York, and George E. Gage Gallery, Cleveland, sold to Elizabeth Bingham Blossom)1 1956-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Exhibition history
200 Years of American Painting. Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (organizer) (co-organizer) (April 1-May 31, 1964). Heritage and Horizon: American Painting 1776 - 1976. Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (March 7-April 11, 1976); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (May 2-June 13, 1976); The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (July 4-August 15, 1976); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 8-October 10, 1976). George Inness Landscapes: His Signature Years, 1884-1894. Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA (organizer) (November 28, 1978-January 28, 1979); Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA (February 10-April 15, 1979). Visions of Landscape: East and West. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). Paris 1900: The "American School" at the Universal Exposition. Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ (organizer) (September 18, 1999-January 16, 2000); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Museum of American Art, Philadelphia, PA (February 11-April 16, 2000); Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (May 18-August 13, 2000); Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WI (September 16-December 3, 2000); Musée Carnavalet, Paris, France (February 20-April 29, 2001).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 7, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- George Inness (American, 1825–1894)
- Date
- 1892
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 111.4 x 137.5 x 12.1 cm (43 7/8 x 54 1/8 x 4 3/4 in.); Unframed: 81 x 106 cm (31 7/8 x 41 3/4 in.); Former: 101 x 127 x 7.6 cm (39 3/4 x 50 x 3 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Anonymous Gift
- Accession no.
- 1956.578
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