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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    The Old Mill
    George Inness. The Old Mill, 1849. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00000901

    The Old Mill

    by George Inness

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Inscriptions

    Signed, lower right: "G. Inness 1849"

    Provenance

    American Art Union, New York; James P. Kelly, New York, 1849, by distribution from the American Art-Union; (Sale, John Fell O'Brien, Auctioneer, at the Waldorf-Astoria, New York, January 13-14, 1902, no. 108); William Owen and Erna Sawyer Goodman, by 1939; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1939.

    Exhibition history

    New York, American Art Union, Jun–Dec. 1849, cat. 128. New York, John Fell O’Brien Art Gallery, Jan. 13–14, 1902, cat. 108. Art Institute of Chicago, The Hudson River School and Early American Landscape Tradition, Feb. 15–Mar. 15, 1945, cat. 123; New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Apr. 17–May 18, 1945. Springfield, Mass., George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, George Inness, An American Landscape Painter, 1825–1894, Feb. 25–Mar. 24, 1946; Brooklyn Museum, Apr. 5–May 12, 1946, Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, May 19–June 23, 1946, cat. 3. Decatur Art Center, Ill., Masterpieces of The Old and New World, Apr. 11–May 9, 1948, cat. 23. Austin, University Art Museum, University of Texas, The Paintings of George Inness (1844–1894), Dec. 12, 1965–Jan. 30, 1966, cat. 6. Salt Lake City, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, American Painting Around 1850, Jan. 11–Feb. 22, 1976, cat. 14.

    Publications

    Bulletin of American Art Union 2, 3 (June 1849), 46. Bulletin of American Art Union 2, 6 (Sept. 1849), 42. Bulletin of American Art Union 2, 7 (Oct. 1849), 36. Bulletin of American Art Union 2, 8 (Nov. 1849), 88. Bulletin of American Art Union 2, 9 (Dec. 1849), 35. Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago: Report for the Year 1939 34, 3 (1940). Virgil Barker, American Painting: History and Interpretation (Macmillan, 1950), no. 63. Jacob G. Smith, “George Inness and the American Landscape Painter,” American Artist 20, 4 (Apr. 1956), 30 (ill.), 71–73. Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 221. LeRoy Ireland, The Works of George Inness, An Illustrated Catalogue Raisonnè (University of Texas Press, 1965), no. 57. Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., George Inness (Praeger Publishers, 1971), no. 5. Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., The Life and Work of George Inness (Garland, 1977), no. 10. Marjorie Dakin Arkelian, George Inness Landscapes: His Signature Years (Oakland Museum of Art, c. 1978), 13 (ill.). “The Advantages of Genius and Virtue: Thomas Cole’s Influence, 1848–1858,” Paintings by Thomas Cole (National Museum of American Art, 1993). Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), cat. 74, 168–171. Rachael Ziady DeLue, George Inness: Landscape, Representation, and the Struggle of Vision (Ph.D. diss., John Hopkins University, 2000), fig. 4.1. Michael Quick, George Inness, a Catalogue Raisonne, vol. 2 (Rutgers University Press, 2007), no. 34, pl. 15.

    Open-access museum data

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    George Inness (American, 1825–1894)
    Date
    1849
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    75.9 × 107 cm (29 7/8 × 42 1/8 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Place
    United States
    Department
    Arts of the Americas
    Credit line
    The William Owen Goodman and Erna Sawyer Goodman Collection
    Accession no.
    1939.388

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