
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000865The Sisters
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right: "G Inness"
Provenance
Elizabeth Hart Inness, widow of the artist [sale, Fifth Avenue Art Galleries, New York, February 11-13, 1904, as The Sisters]. W.C. Findlay, Kansas City, Missouri, by 1925; Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, 1925; Edward B. Butler, Chicago, 1926; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1926.
Exhibition history
Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, George Inness Centennial Exhibition 1825–1925, Oct. 30–Nov. 30, 1925, cat. 41. Kansas City, Missouri, W.C. Findlay Galleries, Inness Retrospect Exposition, 1925. Austin, University Art Museum, University of Texas, The Paintings of George Inness (1844–1894), Dec. 12, 1965–Jan. 30, 1966, cat. 83. Art Mansfield Center, Ohio, The American Garden, Mar. 17–Apr. 14, 1991, cat. 15.
Publications
“A Study by Inness,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 21 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1927), 117–18 (ill.). “A Strange Inness,” Art Digest 2 (Jan. 1, 1928), 4 (ill.). The Edward B. Butler Collection of Paintings by George Inness (Art Institute of Chicago/Lakeside Press, 1930), 45, no. 597. Mary Rexinger, The Inness Gallery at The Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1930), 25–26. A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), 158, no. 26.132. John Shapley, ed., The Index of Twentieth Century Artists (Dec. 1936) 4. Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 221. Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., The Life and Work of George Inness, An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonné (University of Texas Press, 1965), 242, no. 975. Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., George Inness (Praeger Publishers, 1971), no 64. Rachael Ziady DeLue, George Inness: Landscape, Representation, and The Struggle of Vision (Ph.D. diss., John Hopkins University, 2000), fig. 1.17. Rachael Ziady DeLue, George Inness and the Science of Landscape (University of Chicago Press, 2004), no. 13. Michael Quick, George Inness, a Catalogue Raisonne, vol. 2 (Rutgers University Press, 2007), no. 767
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- George Inness (American, 1825–1894)
- Date
- 1882
- Medium
- Oil on millboard
- Dimensions
- 50.8 × 40.6 cm (20 × 16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Edward B. Butler Collection
- Accession no.
- 1926.132
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