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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    The Sisters
    George Inness. The Sisters, 1882. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00000865

    The Sisters

    by George Inness

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    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

    Open-access museum data

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    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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